Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 21
The people of the house kept praying to the gods, and were all day long occupied in making offerings of rice and flour.
Who acts: people, day · What happens: keep, pray, be, make, offer · To what, where: offerings, rice
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 (people, day), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 people | det |
| 2 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 kept | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 people | nmod |
| 6 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | praying | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 6 kept | xcomp |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 gods | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 gods | det |
| 10 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 praying | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 occupied | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 occupied | cc |
| 13 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 occupied | cop |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 15 day | det |
| 15 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 occupied | nsubj |
| 16 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 occupied | advmod |
| 17 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 kept | parataxis |
| 18 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 19 making | mark |
| 19 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 occupied | advcl |
| 20 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 making | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 rice | case |
| 22 | rice | rice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 offerings | nmod |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 flour | cc |
| 24 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rice | conj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | keep | past | the people of the house | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | pray | gerund | the people of the house not said here | to the gods | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | is | past | all day | long, occupied property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | all day not said here | offerings of rice and flour | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset offering=Product | ||||
| 5 | offer | rice and flour | nom offering «communication transitive»: of=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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