Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 19
“Good-morning, Father Raven,” said the old bird on the nest, “who is this sleeping under our tree?”
Who acts: Good morning · What happens: say, sleep · To what, where: old bird, nest, tree · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Good morning), 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 | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 6 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 7 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Father | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 12 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 bird | amod |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 nest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nest | det |
| 16 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 sleeping | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sleeping | punct |
| 19 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 sleeping | nsubj |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 sleeping | aux |
| 21 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 sleeping | nsubj |
| 22 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | parataxis |
| 23 | under | under | ADP | _ | 25 tree | case |
| 24 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 tree | nmod:poss |
| 25 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 sleeping | obl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 22 sleeping | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 sleeping | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | Good morning | the old bird | the nest | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sleep in a quote | present · progressive | our tree | who nsubj; this nsubj | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=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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