Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 6

She is suffering from a severe pain in her left ear, which drives her almost distracted, and no one about the place knows what it is nor how to cure it.

Who acts: mistress, left ear, one, fact · What happens: suffer, drive, distract, know, be, cure · To what, where: severe pain, fact · 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 (mistress, left ear, one, fact), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 suffering	nsubj
2	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 suffering	aux
3	suffering	suffer	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
4	from	from	ADP	_	7 pain	case
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 pain	det
6	severe	severe	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 pain	amod
7	pain	pain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suffering	obl
8	in	in	ADP	_	11 ear	case
9	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 ear	nmod:poss
10	left	left	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 ear	amod
11	ear	ear	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 pain	nmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 drives	punct
13	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 drives	nsubj
14	drives	drive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 ear	acl:relcl
15	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 distracted	nsubj
16	almost	almost	ADV	_	17 distracted	advmod
17	distracted	distract	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 drives	ccomp
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 knows	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 knows	cc
20	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	21 one	det
21	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 knows	nsubj
22	about	about	ADP	_	24 place	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 place	det
24	place	place	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 one	nmod
25	knows	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 suffering	parataxis
26	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	25 knows	ccomp
27	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 what	nsubj
28	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 what	cop
29	nor	nor	CCONJ	Polarity=Neg	32 cure	cc
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	32 cure	advmod
31	to	to	PART	_	32 cure	mark
32	cure	cure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 knows	conj
33	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 cure	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 suffering	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	suffer	present · progressive	mistress		a severe pain in mistress's left ear		vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
2	drive	present	mistress's left ear				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Result
3	distract	past	mistress			almost property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
4	know	present	no one about the place				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer
5	is a	present	fact				tree rules
6	cure	to-infinitive	no one about the place not said here	fact			vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Causer it=Source

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 6

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 6