Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 15
It will appear to them to be a green field, wet with the spring rains, and they will imagine it is time to come out; and then, if they still display any reluctance to emerge, it is only necessary to beat a drum to simulate thunder.
Who acts: It, Ravens, Spider · What happens: appear, be, imagine, come out, display, emerge · To what, where: Ravens, green field, time, reluctance, drum, thunder
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 (It, Ravens, Spider), 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 appear | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 appear | aux |
| 3 | appear | appear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 appear | obl |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 field | mark |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 10 field | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 field | det |
| 9 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 field | amod |
| 10 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 appear | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 wet | punct |
| 12 | wet | wet | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 field | amod |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 rains | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rains | det |
| 15 | spring | spring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 rains | compound |
| 16 | rains | rain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 wet | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 imagine | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 imagine | cc |
| 19 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 imagine | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 imagine | aux |
| 21 | imagine | imagine | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 appear | conj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 time | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 time | cop |
| 24 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 imagine | ccomp |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 come | mark |
| 26 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 time | acl |
| 27 | out | out | ADV | _ | 26 come | advmod |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 30 then | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 then | cc |
| 30 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 appear | advmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 display | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 display | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 display | nsubj |
| 34 | still | still | ADV | _ | 35 display | advmod |
| 35 | display | display | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 appear | parataxis |
| 36 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 reluctance | det |
| 37 | reluctance | reluctance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 display | obj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 emerge | mark |
| 39 | emerge | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 reluctance | acl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 necessary | punct |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 44 necessary | expl |
| 42 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 44 necessary | cop |
| 43 | only | only | ADV | _ | 44 necessary | advmod |
| 44 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 display | conj |
| 45 | to | to | PART | _ | 46 beat | mark |
| 46 | beat | beat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 44 necessary | csubj |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 drum | det |
| 48 | drum | drum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 beat | obj |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 simulate | mark |
| 50 | simulate | simulate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 46 beat | advcl |
| 51 | thunder | thunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 50 simulate | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appear | future | It | Ravens = raven | then | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a | to-infinitive | a green field | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | imagine | future | Ravens = raven | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | is a | present | Spider | time | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | come out | to-infinitive | Ravens = raven not said here | out property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | display a condition, not said to happen | present | Ravens = raven | any reluctance | still | vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent reluctance=Theme | |||
| 7 | emerge | to-infinitive | Ravens = raven not said here | any reluctance not said here | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | is | present | Ravens = raven not said here | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 9 | beat | to-infinitive | a drum | vn sound_emission-43.2 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location drum=Theme | |||||
| 10 | simulate | to-infinitive | thunder | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thunder=Patient |
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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