Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 11
As you are aware, Spiders are in the habit of sleeping all through the winter months, and only wake up and emerge from their retreat in the spring.
Who acts: you, aware Spiders, habit · What happens: be, sleep, wake up, emerge · To what, where: habit, retreat
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: who acts (you, aware Spiders, habit), 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 4 aware | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 aware | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 aware | cop |
| 4 | aware | aware | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Spiders | amod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 aware | punct |
| 6 | Spiders | spider | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 habit | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 habit | cop |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 habit | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 habit | det |
| 10 | habit | habit | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 12 sleeping | mark |
| 12 | sleeping | sleep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 habit | acl |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 17 months | advmod |
| 14 | through | through | ADP | _ | 17 months | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 months | det |
| 16 | winter | winter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 months | compound |
| 17 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 sleeping | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 wake | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 wake | cc |
| 20 | only | only | ADV | _ | 21 wake | advmod |
| 21 | wake | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 habit | parataxis |
| 22 | up | up | ADP | _ | 21 wake | compound:prt |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 emerge | cc |
| 24 | emerge | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 wake | conj |
| 25 | from | from | ADP | _ | 27 retreat | case |
| 26 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 retreat | nmod:poss |
| 27 | retreat | retreat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 emerge | obl |
| 28 | in | in | ADP | _ | 30 spring | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 spring | det |
| 30 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 retreat | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 habit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | you | aware property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is | present | aware Spiders | the habit | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | sleep | gerund | the habit not said here | month | vn snooze-40.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | wake up | present | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | emerge | infinitive | Ravens's retreat in the spring | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from retreat=Initial_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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