Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 27
But just then the Bridegroom caught sight of him, and called out in a rough voice:
Who acts: Bridegroom · What happens: catch, call out, sight · To what, where: sight, rough voice, Boy
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 (Bridegroom), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 6 caught | cc |
| 2 | just | just | ADV | _ | 6 caught | advmod |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 caught | advmod |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Bridegroom | det |
| 5 | Bridegroom | Bridegroom | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | nsubj |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 caught | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 him | case |
| 9 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 called | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 called | cc |
| 12 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 caught | parataxis |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 called | compound:prt |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 voice | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 voice | det |
| 16 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 voice | amod |
| 17 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 called | obl |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 caught | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | catch | past | the Bridegroom | sight of Boy | then | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | |||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | a rough voice | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | sight | Boy | nom sight «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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