Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 20
“That,” replied Father Raven, “is a foolish home-bred Boy who has no experience of the world.
Who acts: That, foolish bred Boy · What happens: reply, breed, be, have, experience · To what, where: Father, foolish bred Boy, experience, world · 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 (That, foolish bred Boy), 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 | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 That | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 That | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 7 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Father | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 Boy | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Boy | punct |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Boy | cop |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Boy | det |
| 12 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 Boy | amod |
| 13 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bred | compound |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 home | punct |
| 15 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 Boy | amod |
| 16 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Father | conj |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 has | nsubj |
| 18 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 Boy | acl:relcl |
| 19 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 20 experience | det |
| 20 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 has | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 world | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 world | det |
| 23 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 experience | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | That | Father and a foolish bred Boy | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent father=Topic | ||||
| 2 | breed in a quote | participle | home compound | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | That not said here | a foolish bred Boy | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | a foolish bred Boy | no experience of the world | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experience=Patient | ||||
| 5 | experience in a quote | the world | nom experience «cognition transitive»: of=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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