Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 75
Kicking this rock three times with his right foot, he pronounced the magic words, and as he said them for the third time two rocky doors flew open, disclosing a cave inside.
Who acts: Baki, two rocky doors · What happens: kick, pronounce, say, fly, disclose · To what, where: rock, magic words, words, third time, cave · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Baki, two rocky doors), 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 | Kicking | kick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 pronounced | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 rock | det |
| 3 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kicking | obj |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Kicking | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 foot | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 foot | nmod:poss |
| 8 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 foot | amod |
| 9 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Kicking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Kicking | punct |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 pronounced | nsubj |
| 12 | pronounced | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 words | det |
| 14 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 words | amod |
| 15 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 pronounced | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 said | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 said | cc |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 20 said | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | nsubj |
| 20 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 pronounced | conj |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 said | obj |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 time | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 time | det |
| 24 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 25 time | amod |
| 25 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 said | obl |
| 26 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 doors | nummod |
| 27 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 doors | amod |
| 28 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 flew | nsubj |
| 29 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 time | acl:relcl |
| 30 | open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 flew | xcomp |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 disclosing | punct |
| 32 | disclosing | disclose | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 said | advcl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 cave | det |
| 34 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 disclosing | obj |
| 35 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 32 disclosing | advmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 pronounced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kick | gerund | Baki not said here | this rock | time | with Baki's right foot | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent rock=Patient with foot=Instrument | ||
| 2 | pronounce | past | Baki | the magic words | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Baki | words = word | time | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent they=Topic | |||
| 4 | fly | past | two rocky doors | the third time not said here | open property | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme | |||
| 5 | disclose | gerund | Baki not said here | a cave | inside property | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot cave=Topic |
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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