Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 49
“Now,” said he, “I hope in a few minutes to be able to discover the missing turquoise, for I am possessed of magic qualities of unusual power.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: say, hope, be, discover, possess · To what, where: missing turquoise, Boy · 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 (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 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 hope | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hope | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hope | nsubj |
| 10 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 minutes | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 minutes | det |
| 13 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 minutes | amod |
| 14 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hope | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 able | mark |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | cop |
| 17 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 hope | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 discover | mark |
| 19 | discover | discover | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 able | xcomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 turquoise | det |
| 21 | missing | missing | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 turquoise | amod |
| 22 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 discover | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 possessed | punct |
| 24 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 27 possessed | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 possessed | nsubj |
| 26 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 possessed | aux:pass |
| 27 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 discover | advcl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 qualities | case |
| 29 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 qualities | amod |
| 30 | qualities | quality | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 possessed | obl |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 power | case |
| 32 | unusual | unusual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 power | amod |
| 33 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 qualities | nmod |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Boy | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hope in a quote | present | Boy | minute | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | able property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | discover in a quote | to-infinitive | the missing turquoise | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turquoise=Topic | |||||
| 5 | possess in a quote | present · passive | Boy | of magic qualities of unusual power | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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