Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 28
“Who are you who come crying here at my wedding feast?
What happens: cry · To what, where: wedding feast
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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 crying | punct |
| 2 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 come | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 come | cop |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 come | nsubj |
| 5 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 come | nsubj |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 crying | aux |
| 7 | crying | cry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 crying | advmod |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 feast | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 feast | nmod:poss |
| 11 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 feast | compound |
| 12 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 crying | obl |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 crying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cry speech: express in a quote | present | my wedding feast; here | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at feast=Location |
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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