Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 17
He woke towards dawn, and, looking up into the branches of the tree, he saw a large Raven’s nest, on which an old Raven was sitting hatching her eggs, whilst Father Raven perched on a branch near by.
Who acts: Boy, old Raven, Father · What happens: wake, look up, see, sit, hatch, perch · To what, where: nest, eggs, branch
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, old Raven, Father), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 woke | nsubj |
| 2 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 4 dawn | case |
| 4 | dawn | dawn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 woke | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 looking | cc |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 looking | punct |
| 8 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 woke | advcl |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 looking | compound:prt |
| 10 | into | into | ADP | _ | 12 branches | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 branches | det |
| 12 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 looking | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 tree | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 tree | det |
| 15 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 branches | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 saw | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 saw | nsubj |
| 18 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 woke | parataxis |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Raven | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Raven | amod |
| 21 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 nest | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Raven | case |
| 23 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 saw | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sitting | punct |
| 25 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 sitting | obl |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 Raven | det |
| 28 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 Raven | amod |
| 29 | Raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sitting | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sitting | aux |
| 31 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 saw | conj |
| 32 | hatching | hatch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 sitting | advcl |
| 33 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 eggs | nmod:poss |
| 34 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 hatching | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 perched | punct |
| 36 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 39 perched | mark |
| 37 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 perched | nsubj |
| 38 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Father | flat |
| 39 | perched | perch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 saw | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 branch | case |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 branch | det |
| 42 | branch | branch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 perched | obl |
| 43 | near | near | ADV | _ | 39 perched | advmod |
| 44 | by | by | ADP | _ | 43 near | fixed |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake | past | Boy | dawn | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look up | gerund | Boy not said here | into the branches of the tree | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent into branch=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | past | Boy | a large Raven's nest | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer nest=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | sit | past · progressive | a old Raven | which obl | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on which=Location | ||||
| 5 | hatch | gerund | a old Raven not said here | Raven's eggs | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: agent=Agent egg=Product | ||||
| 6 | perch | past | Father | a branch | near property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on branch=Location |
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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