Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 71
As you pronounce these words for the third time the door will open, disclosing a large cave, in the centre of which, seated upon a red stone, you will see a green Parrot.
Who acts: you, door · What happens: pronounce, open, disclose, seat, see · To what, where: words, centre, large cave, green Parrot
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, door), what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.
Mova's own parse. This tree may be wrong.
The tree
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 pronounce | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 pronounce | nsubj |
| 3 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 open | advcl |
| 4 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 5 words | det |
| 5 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 pronounce | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 9 time | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 time | det |
| 8 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 9 time | amod |
| 9 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 open | obl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 door | det |
| 11 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 open | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 open | aux |
| 13 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 disclosing | punct |
| 15 | disclosing | disclose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 open | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 cave | det |
| 17 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cave | amod |
| 18 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 disclosing | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 centre | punct |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 22 centre | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 centre | det |
| 22 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 open | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 which | case |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 centre | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seated | punct |
| 26 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 centre | acl:relcl |
| 27 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 30 stone | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 stone | det |
| 29 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 stone | amod |
| 30 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seated | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 see | punct |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 see | nsubj |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 see | aux |
| 34 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 open | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 Parrot | det |
| 36 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 Parrot | amod |
| 37 | Parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 see | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 open | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pronounce | present | you | this words | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 2 | open | future | the door | the centre | time | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in centre=Location | |||
| 3 | disclose | gerund | the door not said here | a large cave | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cave=Topic | ||||
| 4 | seat | participle | the centre not said here | upon a red stone | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 5 | see | future | you | a green Parrot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus |
One row per clause the reader finds. «not said here»: a role filled from the clause above. «roles by»: a VerbNet class and frame when one fits the verb, else the reader's rules on the tree.
Text: «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (public domain in the USA). Tree: Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. Frames: Mova's frames reader (prag), the chapter read in order.
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