Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 19
“But you yourself are not looking at all well this morning, what is the matter with you?”
Who acts: you · What happens: not look, be · To what, where: matter
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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 2 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 looking | cc |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 looking | nsubj |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 you | nmod |
| 5 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 looking | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 looking | advmod |
| 7 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 looking | obl |
| 10 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 looking | advmod |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 morning | det |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 matter | punct |
| 14 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 17 matter | nsubj |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 matter | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 matter | det |
| 17 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 looking | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 matter | nmod |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 looking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not look in a quote | present · progressive | you | morning | at all; well property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at all=Theme | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the matter | with you; what nsubj | tree rules |
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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