Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 30
Going to the house he asked what was the matter, and on hearing the cause of their sorrow he at once announced that he was possessed of very wonderful magic powers, and was prepared to effect a cure.
Who acts: Boy, torments · What happens: go, ask, be, hear, announce, possess · To what, where: house, matter, cause, Boy, effect, sorrow · 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 (Boy, torments), 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 | Going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 asked | advcl |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 house | case |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 house | det |
| 4 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Going | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 asked | nsubj |
| 6 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 matter | nsubj |
| 8 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 matter | cop |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 matter | det |
| 10 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 asked | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 announced | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 announced | cc |
| 13 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 14 hearing | mark |
| 14 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 announced | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 cause | det |
| 16 | cause | cause | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 hearing | obj |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 sorrow | case |
| 18 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 sorrow | nmod:poss |
| 19 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 cause | nmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 announced | nsubj |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 once | case |
| 22 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 23 announced | obl |
| 23 | announced | announce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 asked | conj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 27 possessed | mark |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 possessed | nsubj:pass |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 possessed | aux:pass |
| 27 | possessed | possess | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 announced | ccomp |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 powers | case |
| 29 | very | very | ADV | _ | 30 wonderful | advmod |
| 30 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 powers | amod |
| 31 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 powers | amod |
| 32 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 possessed | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 prepared | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 prepared | cc |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 prepared | aux:pass |
| 36 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 asked | parataxis |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 effect | mark |
| 38 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 prepared | xcomp |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 cure | det |
| 40 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 prepared | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 asked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | gerund | Boy not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Boy | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | the matter | what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | hear | gerund | Boy not said here | the cause of torments's sorrow | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer cause=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | announce speech: other | past | Boy | vn order-58.3 «NP V S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | possess | past · passive | Boy | of wonderful magic powers | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 7 | prepare | past · passive | effect | a cure obj | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: cure=Patient | ||||
| 8 | cause | torments's sorrow | nom cause «event transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 9 | sorrow | torments = torment | nom sorrow «feeling intransitive»: 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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