Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 29
We want no woebegone faces here to-day to bring us bad luck.
Who acts: We, woebegone · What happens: want, face, bring · To what, where: bad luck, us
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 (We, woebegone), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 want | nsubj |
| 2 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 woebegone | det |
| 4 | woebegone | woebegone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 faces | nsubj |
| 5 | faces | face | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 want | ccomp |
| 6 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 faces | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 to | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 here | obl |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 bring | mark |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 faces | advcl |
| 12 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obj |
| 13 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 luck | amod |
| 14 | luck | luck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 want | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | want | present | We | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | face | present | no woebegone | here | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | bring | to-infinitive | no woebegone not said here | bad luck | us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent we=Destination luck=Theme |
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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