Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 10
It is impossible to dislodge them except by a stratagem.
What happens: be, dislodge · To what, where: Ravens
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 impossible | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 impossible | cop |
| 3 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 dislodge | mark |
| 5 | dislodge | dislodge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 impossible | csubj |
| 6 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 dislodge | obj |
| 7 | except | except | ADP | _ | 10 stratagem | case |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 10 stratagem | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 stratagem | det |
| 10 | stratagem | stratagem | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 dislodge | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 impossible | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | dislodge | to-infinitive | Ravens = raven | except a stratagem | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=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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