Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 7
They have consulted all of the most famous doctors and lamas in the neighbourhood without, however, affording her any relief at all.
What happens: consult, afford · To what, where: Ravens, mistress
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: 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 consulted | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 consulted | aux |
| 3 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 consulted | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 doctors | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 doctors | det |
| 7 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 8 famous | advmod |
| 8 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 doctors | amod |
| 9 | doctors | doctor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 all | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 lamas | cc |
| 11 | lamas | lama | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 doctors | conj |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 neighbourhood | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 neighbourhood | det |
| 14 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 all | nmod |
| 15 | without | without | ADP | _ | 3 consulted | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 affording | punct |
| 17 | however | however | ADV | _ | 19 affording | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 affording | punct |
| 19 | affording | afford | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 consulted | advcl |
| 20 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 affording | obj |
| 21 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 22 relief | det |
| 22 | relief | relief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 affording | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 all | case |
| 24 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 relief | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | present · perfect · passive | Ravens = raven | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP.attribute»: subject=Theme all=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | afford | gerund | mistress | any relief obj; however 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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