Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 18
Mother Raven thanked Father Raven for his information, and she then said:
Who acts: Mother, Father · What happens: thank, say, inform · To what, where: Father Raven · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Mother, Father), 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 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 2 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | nsubj |
| 3 | thanked | thank | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Raven | compound |
| 5 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 information | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 information | nmod:poss |
| 8 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thanked | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 said | cc |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 said | nsubj |
| 12 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 said | advmod |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thanked | parataxis |
| 14 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | thank speech: thank | past | Mother | Father Raven | for Father's information; Raven nsubj | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent raven=Theme for information=Attribute | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Mother | then | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | inform | Father | nom information «communication intransitive»: 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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