Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 45
The poor Boy was greatly alarmed at hearing these words, and having no weapon himself he was completely at the old man’s mercy.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: alarm, hear, have, be · To what, where: poor Boy, words, weapon, mercy
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Boy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Boy | amod |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 5 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 6 alarmed | advmod |
| 6 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 8 hearing | mark |
| 8 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 alarmed | advcl |
| 9 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 hearing | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 having | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 having | cc |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 hearing | conj |
| 14 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 15 weapon | det |
| 15 | weapon | weapon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 having | obj |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 13 having | obl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 mercy | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 mercy | cop |
| 19 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 25 mercy | advmod |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 mercy | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 man | det |
| 22 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 man | amod |
| 23 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 mercy | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 man | case |
| 25 | mercy | mercy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 having | parataxis |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | alarm | past · passive | the poor Boy | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | have | gerund | no weapon | Boy obl | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent weapon=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | past | Boy | the old man's mercy | the old man nmod:poss; completely property | 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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