Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 2
As day was dawning the two Ravens overhead began talking to one another as before, and the boy overheard their conversation.
Who acts: boy, Ravens · What happens: dawn, begin, talk, overhear, converse · To what, where: two Ravens, one, conversation
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 (boy, Ravens), 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 dawning | mark |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dawning | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dawning | aux |
| 4 | dawning | dawn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 began | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Ravens | det |
| 6 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 Ravens | nummod |
| 7 | Ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dawning | obj |
| 8 | overhead | overhead | ADV | _ | 9 began | advmod |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | talking | talk | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 began | xcomp |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 one | case |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 talking | obl |
| 13 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 one | fixed |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 15 before | case |
| 15 | before | before | ADV | _ | 10 talking | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 overheard | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 overheard | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 boy | det |
| 19 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 overheard | nsubj |
| 20 | overheard | overhear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 began | conj |
| 21 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 conversation | nmod:poss |
| 22 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 overheard | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | dawn | past · progressive | the two Ravens | day | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location raven=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | overhead property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | talk | gerund | one | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to one=Co-Agent | |||||
| 4 | overhear | past | the boy | Ravens's conversation | vn sight-30.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer conversation=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | converse | Ravens = raven | nom conversation «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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