Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 9
I have ascertained that the pain in her ear is due to the fact that some days ago a large Spider effected an entrance during her sleep, and that the Spider and her young ones have now taken up their abode inside the Lady’s head.
Who acts: I, pain, days, Spider, mistress · What happens: ascertain, be, affect, take up, sleep · To what, where: entrance, abode, head
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 (I, pain, days, Spider), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ascertained | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 ascertained | aux |
| 3 | ascertained | ascertain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 fact | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 pain | det |
| 6 | pain | pain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 fact | nsubj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 ear | case |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 ear | nmod:poss |
| 9 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 pain | nmod |
| 10 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 fact | cop |
| 11 | due | due | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 14 fact | case |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 due | fixed |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fact | det |
| 14 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ascertained | obl:agent |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 effected | mark |
| 16 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 17 days | det |
| 17 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 effected | nsubj |
| 18 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 17 days | advmod |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 Spider | det |
| 20 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 Spider | amod |
| 21 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 days | appos |
| 22 | effected | affect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 fact | acl |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 entrance | det |
| 24 | entrance | entrance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 effected | obj |
| 25 | during | during | ADP | _ | 27 sleep | case |
| 26 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 27 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 effected | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 taken | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 taken | cc |
| 30 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 taken | mark |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 Spider | det |
| 32 | Spider | Spider | PROPN | Number=Sing | 39 taken | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 ones | cc |
| 34 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 ones | nmod:poss |
| 35 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 ones | amod |
| 36 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 Spider | conj |
| 37 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 39 taken | aux |
| 38 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 39 taken | advmod |
| 39 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 ascertained | conj |
| 40 | up | up | ADP | _ | 39 taken | compound:prt |
| 41 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 abode | nmod:poss |
| 42 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 taken | obj |
| 43 | inside | inside | ADP | _ | 47 head | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 Lady | det |
| 45 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 head | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 Lady | case |
| 47 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 taken | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ascertained | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ascertain | present · perfect | I | vn discover-84 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the pain in mistress's ear | due the fact | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | affect | past | some days | a entrance | during mistress's sleep | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus entrance=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | take up | present · perfect | the Spider and mistress's young ones | Ravens's abode | the Lady's head | now | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent abode=Theme | ||
| 5 | sleep | mistress | nom sleep «state 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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