Folk tales from Tibet, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs., sentence 10
I fear that lurking at your back, Are demons red [13] to bring me endless sorrow.”
Who acts: I · What happens: fear, lurk, be, bring · To what, where: back, demons, endless sorrow, me
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I), 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 | 2 fear | nsubj |
| 2 | fear | fear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 4 lurking | mark |
| 4 | lurking | lurk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 fear | advcl |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lurking | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 demons | punct |
| 9 | Are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 demons | cop |
| 10 | demons | demon | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 fear | parataxis |
| 11 | red | red | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 13 | amod |
| 12 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 13 13 | punct |
| 13 | 13 | 13 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 10 demons | nmod |
| 14 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 13 13 | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 bring | mark |
| 16 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 fear | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 bring | obj |
| 18 | endless | endless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sorrow | amod |
| 19 | sorrow | sorrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 bring | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 fear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fear | present | I | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | lurk | gerund | I not said here | your back | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at back=Location | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | demons | red 13 nmod | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | I not said here | endless sorrow | me | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination sorrow=Theme |
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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