Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 27
So she pushed old Father Raven’s body out of the nest with her bill and let it fall to the ground below, while she herself flew off to find food for the young ravens, which had just been hatched out.
Who acts: Mother, body · What happens: push, let, fall, fly off, find, hatch out · To what, where: body, nest, food, young ravens
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 (Mother, body), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 pushed | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pushed | nsubj |
| 3 | pushed | push | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Raven | amod |
| 5 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Raven | compound |
| 6 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 body | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 Raven | case |
| 8 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushed | obj |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 12 nest | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 nest | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 nest | det |
| 12 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushed | obl |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 bill | case |
| 14 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bill | nmod:poss |
| 15 | bill | bill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 pushed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 let | cc |
| 17 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 pushed | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 let | obj |
| 19 | fall | fall | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 let | xcomp |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 ground | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 ground | det |
| 22 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fall | obl |
| 23 | below | below | ADV | _ | 22 ground | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 flew | punct |
| 25 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 28 flew | mark |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 flew | nsubj |
| 27 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 26 she | conj |
| 28 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pushed | conj |
| 29 | off | off | ADP | _ | 28 flew | compound:prt |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 find | mark |
| 31 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 flew | xcomp |
| 32 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 find | obj |
| 33 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 ravens | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 ravens | det |
| 35 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ravens | amod |
| 36 | ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 find | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 hatched | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 hatched | nsubj:pass |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 hatched | aux |
| 40 | just | just | ADV | _ | 42 hatched | advmod |
| 41 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 42 hatched | aux:pass |
| 42 | hatched | hatch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 36 ravens | acl:relcl |
| 43 | out | out | ADP | _ | 42 hatched | compound:prt |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | push | past | Mother | old Father Raven's body | the nest | with Mother's bill | vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent body=Theme out nest=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | let | infinitive | Mother not said here | body | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | fall | infinitive | body not said here | to the ground | vn acquiesce-95.1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to ground=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly off | past | Mother | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | Mother not said here | food | for the young ravens | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent food=Theme for raven=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | hatch out | past · perfect · passive | the young ravens | vn grow-26.2.1 «NP V NP.product PP.patient»: subject=Product | |||||
| 7 | bill | Mother | nom bill «communication transitive»: 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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