Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 89
“What a beautiful cowrie-shell!”
To what, where: beautiful cowrie shell
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: 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shell | punct |
| 2 | What | what | DET | PronType=Int | 7 shell | det |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 shell | det |
| 4 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 shell | amod |
| 5 | cowrie | cowrie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 shell | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 cowrie | punct |
| 7 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 7 shell | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 shell | punct |
Pragmatics
The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.
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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