Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 3
“Good-morning, Father Raven,” said the hen bird on the nest.
Who acts: Good morning · What happens: say · To what, where: hen bird, nest · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Good morning), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 6 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 7 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Father | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Father | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 bird | det |
| 12 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 bird | compound |
| 13 | bird | bird | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 nest | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 nest | det |
| 16 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Good morning | the hen bird | the nest | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent bird=Topic |
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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