Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 25
Mother Raven, on hearing this, was greatly affected, and solemnly vowed to carry out the wishes of her husband, and poor old Father Raven, getting into the nest, shortly after breathed his last.
Who acts: husband · What happens: hear, affect, vow, carry out, get, breathe · To what, where: this, Mother Raven, poor old Father Raven, wishes, nest, last
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 (husband), 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 | 2 Raven | compound |
| 2 | Raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 affected | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 hearing | punct |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 hearing | mark |
| 5 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Raven | conj |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 hearing | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Raven | punct |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 affected | aux:pass |
| 9 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 10 affected | advmod |
| 10 | affected | affect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 vowed | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 vowed | cc |
| 13 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 14 vowed | advmod |
| 14 | vowed | vow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 affected | conj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 carry | mark |
| 16 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 vowed | xcomp |
| 17 | out | out | ADP | _ | 16 carry | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 wishes | det |
| 19 | wishes | wish | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 carry | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 husband | case |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 husband | nmod:poss |
| 22 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 wishes | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Raven | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 Raven | cc |
| 25 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Raven | amod |
| 26 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Raven | amod |
| 27 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Raven | compound |
| 28 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 vowed | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 getting | punct |
| 30 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 vowed | advcl |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 33 nest | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 nest | det |
| 33 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 getting | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 breathed | punct |
| 35 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 37 breathed | advmod |
| 36 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 37 breathed | mark |
| 37 | breathed | breathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 getting | conj |
| 38 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 last | nmod:poss |
| 39 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 breathed | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 affected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | affect | past · passive | Mother Raven | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | vow | past | poor old Father Raven | solemnly property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | carry out not said to happen | to-infinitive | the wishes of Mother's husband | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wish=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | get | gerund | the nest | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into nest=Destination | |||||
| 6 | breathe | past | husband's last | shortly property | vn breathe-40.1.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent last=Theme | ||||
| 7 | wish | Mother's husband | nom wish «feeling intransitive»: of=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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