Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 76
Entering the cave he saw a green Parrot seated on a red stone in the centre, and he at once seized the bird and wrung its neck.
Who acts: Baki · What happens: enter, see, seat, seize, wring · To what, where: cave, green Parrot, red stone, bird, neck · 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), 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 | Entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 saw | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 cave | det |
| 3 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Entering | obj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 saw | nsubj |
| 5 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Parrot | det |
| 7 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Parrot | amod |
| 8 | Parrot | parrot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 saw | obj |
| 9 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Parrot | acl |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 13 stone | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 stone | det |
| 12 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 stone | amod |
| 13 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seated | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 centre | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 centre | det |
| 16 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 seated | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 seized | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 seized | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 seized | nsubj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 once | case |
| 21 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 22 seized | obl |
| 22 | seized | seize | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 saw | parataxis |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 bird | det |
| 24 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 seized | obj |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wrung | cc |
| 26 | wrung | wring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 seized | conj |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 neck | nmod:poss |
| 28 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 wrung | obj |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | enter | gerund | the cave | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cave=Destination | |||||
| 2 | see | past | Baki | a green Parrot | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer parrot=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | seat | participle | a green Parrot not said here | a red stone | in the centre | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=Location | |||
| 4 | seize | past | Baki | the bird | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bird=Theme | ||||
| 5 | wring | past | Baki not said here | cave's neck | vn crane-40.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent neck=Patient |
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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