Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 22
“Yes, so I see,” replied Mother Raven, “but it is clear, nevertheless, that all he has to do is to go towards the villages which lie towards the east from here—there he will meet with good fortune.”
Who acts: Mother Raven, all, villages, Father · What happens: see, reply, be, have, lie, meet · 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 (Mother Raven, all, villages, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 replied | punct |
| 2 | Yes | yes | INTJ | Polarity=Pos | 6 see | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 see | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 see | nsubj |
| 6 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | parataxis |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 see | punct |
| 9 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | Mother | Mother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Raven | compound |
| 11 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 replied | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 clear | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 clear | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 clear | cc |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 clear | expl |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 clear | cop |
| 17 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 replied | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 nevertheless | punct |
| 19 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 17 clear | advmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 has | punct |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 has | mark |
| 22 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 has | nsubj |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 has | nsubj |
| 24 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 replied | conj |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 do | mark |
| 26 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | aux |
| 27 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 go | cop |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 go | mark |
| 29 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 24 has | parataxis |
| 30 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 32 villages | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 villages | det |
| 32 | villages | village | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 go | obl |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 lie | nsubj |
| 34 | lie | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 villages | acl:relcl |
| 35 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 37 east | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 east | det |
| 37 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lie | obl |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 here | case |
| 39 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 lie | obl |
| 40 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 44 meet | punct |
| 41 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 44 meet | advmod |
| 42 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 meet | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 meet | aux |
| 44 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 go | conj |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 47 fortune | case |
| 46 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 fortune | amod |
| 47 | fortune | fortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 meet | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
| 49 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 29 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see in a quote | present | Mother Raven = raven | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Mother Raven | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Mother Raven not said here | clear, nevertheless property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | all | Father nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | to-infinitive · do-support | towards the villages; go property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | lie in a quote | present | the villages | towards the east | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | meet in a quote | future | Father | there | with good fortune | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with fortune=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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