Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 32
“All that is necessary,” replied he, “is a square piece of green cloth, some clean water in a jug and a couple of drums.”
Who acts: All, necessary, Boy · What happens: be, reply · To what, where: square piece · 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 (All, necessary, Boy), 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 | _ | 5 necessary | punct |
| 2 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 necessary | nsubj |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 All | obj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 necessary | cop |
| 5 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 necessary | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 necessary | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 piece | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 piece | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 piece | punct |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 piece | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 14 | square | square | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 piece | amod |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | ccomp |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 cloth | case |
| 17 | green | green | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 cloth | amod |
| 18 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 water | punct |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 water | det |
| 21 | clean | clean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 water | amod |
| 22 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 jug | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 jug | det |
| 25 | jug | jug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 water | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 couple | cc |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 couple | det |
| 28 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jug | conj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 drums | case |
| 30 | drums | drum | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 couple | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 water | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 piece | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | All that | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | necessary | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | Boy | a square piece | of green cloth; some clean water in a jug and a couple of drums parataxis | tree rules |
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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