Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 50
In my search I shall be assisted by this enchanted pig’s head which I hold under my arm.
Who acts: head, my · What happens: assist, enchant, hold, search · To what, where: I, search, arm
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 (head, my), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 3 search | case |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 search | nmod:poss |
| 3 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assisted | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 assisted | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 assisted | aux |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 assisted | aux:pass |
| 7 | assisted | assist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 13 head | case |
| 9 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 pig | det |
| 10 | enchanted | enchant | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 pig | amod |
| 11 | pig | pig | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 head | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 pig | case |
| 13 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 assisted | obl |
| 14 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 hold | nsubj |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 hold | nsubj |
| 16 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 head | acl:relcl |
| 17 | under | under | ADP | _ | 19 arm | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 arm | nmod:poss |
| 19 | arm | arm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hold | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 assisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | assist | shall · passive | this enchanted pig's head | I | my search | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | enchant | participle | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 3 | hold | present | this enchanted pig's head | my arm | I nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under arm=Location | |||
| 4 | search | my | nom search «act transitive»: poss=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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