Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 26
As soon as he was dead Mother Raven remarked to herself that she had a great deal too much to do in looking after her family and household duties to think for a moment of following so absurd a custom as mourning for a dead bird for any period at all.
Who acts: husband, Mother, moment · What happens: be, remark, have, do, look, think · To what, where: dead Mother Raven, Mother, great deal
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, Mother, moment), 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 | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 Raven | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 Raven | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 Raven | cop |
| 6 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 Raven | amod |
| 7 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 Raven | compound |
| 8 | Raven | raven | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soon | advcl |
| 9 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 Raven | acl |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 herself | case |
| 11 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 remarked | obl |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 had | mark |
| 13 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 had | nsubj |
| 14 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 remarked | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 deal | det |
| 16 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deal | amod |
| 17 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 had | obj |
| 18 | too | too | ADV | _ | 19 much | advmod |
| 19 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 deal | amod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 do | mark |
| 21 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 much | acl |
| 22 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 23 looking | mark |
| 23 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 do | advcl |
| 24 | after | after | ADP | _ | 26 family | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 family | nmod:poss |
| 26 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 looking | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 duties | cc |
| 28 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 duties | compound |
| 29 | duties | duty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 family | conj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 think | mark |
| 31 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 looking | advcl |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 moment | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 moment | det |
| 34 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 think | obl |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 following | case |
| 36 | following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 moment | acl |
| 37 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 following | advmod |
| 38 | absurd | absurd | ADP | _ | 40 custom | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 custom | det |
| 40 | custom | custom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 so | obl |
| 41 | as | as | ADP | _ | 42 mourning | case |
| 42 | mourning | mourning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 custom | nmod |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 46 bird | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 46 bird | det |
| 45 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 bird | amod |
| 46 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 mourning | nmod |
| 47 | for | for | ADP | _ | 49 period | case |
| 48 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 49 period | det |
| 49 | period | period | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 bird | nmod |
| 50 | at | at | ADP | _ | 51 all | case |
| 51 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 49 period | nmod |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | husband | dead Mother Raven | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | remark speech: assert | participle | dead Mother Raven not said here | Mother | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to herself=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | have | past | Mother | a great deal | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent deal=Patient | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 5 | look | gerund | after Mother's family and household duties | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | think speech: other | to-infinitive | moment | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | follow | gerund | a moment not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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