Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 18
When day broke the two Ravens began talking to one another.
What happens: break, begin, talk · To what, where: two Ravens, one
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: 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 broke | advmod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 broke | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | broke | break | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 began | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Ravens | det |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 Ravens | nummod |
| 6 | Ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 broke | obj |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 began | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 one | case |
| 10 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 talking | obl |
| 11 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 one | fixed |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | break | past | the two Ravens | day | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Patient | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | one | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-Agent |
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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