Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 22
Most of these offerings were thrown out into the garden, and I was able to eat as much as I wanted.
Who acts: I · What happens: throw out, be, eat, want · To what, where: Most, garden, much
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 (I), 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 | Most | most | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 6 thrown | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 offerings | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 offerings | det |
| 4 | offerings | offering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Most | nmod |
| 5 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 thrown | aux:pass |
| 6 | thrown | throw | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | out | out | ADV | _ | 6 thrown | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 garden | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 garden | det |
| 10 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 thrown | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 able | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 able | cc |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 able | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 able | cop |
| 15 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 thrown | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 eat | mark |
| 17 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 able | xcomp |
| 18 | as | as | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 eat | obj |
| 20 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 wanted | mark |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 wanted | nsubj |
| 22 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 much | advcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 thrown | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | throw out | past · passive | Most of this offerings | into the garden result; out property | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.result»: subject=Theme into garden=Result | ||||
| 2 | is | past | I | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | much | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent much=Patient | ||||
| 4 | want | past | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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