Folk tales from Tibet, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs., sentence 2
“As a great mountain, with its cooling streams, Nourishes the little fields far down below, Do you, my lover, with a stream of love, Nourish the heart of her who loves you so.”
Who acts: stream, Nourish heart · What happens: nourish, do, heart, love · To what, where: little fields, you
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 (stream, Nourish heart), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nourishes | punct |
| 2 | As | as | ADP | _ | 5 mountain | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 mountain | det |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 mountain | amod |
| 5 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 Nourishes | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 streams | punct |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 streams | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 streams | nmod:poss |
| 9 | cooling | cooling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 streams | compound |
| 10 | streams | stream | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 mountain | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 mountain | punct |
| 12 | Nourishes | nourish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 fields | det |
| 14 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 fields | amod |
| 15 | fields | field | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 Nourishes | obj |
| 16 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 below | advmod |
| 17 | down | down | ADV | _ | 18 below | advmod |
| 18 | below | below | ADV | _ | 12 Nourishes | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Do | punct |
| 20 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 Nourishes | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 Do | iobj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 lover | punct |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 lover | nmod:poss |
| 24 | lover | lover | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 you | conj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 stream | punct |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 stream | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stream | det |
| 28 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 heart | nsubj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 love | case |
| 30 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 stream | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 Nourish | punct |
| 32 | Nourish | Nourish | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 heart | compound |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 heart | det |
| 34 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 Do | parataxis |
| 35 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 38 loves | mark |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 loves | nmod:poss |
| 37 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 loves | nsubj |
| 38 | loves | love | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 heart | acl:relcl |
| 39 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 38 loves | obj |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 loves | advmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nourishes | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 Nourishes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | nourish in a quote | present | the little fields | as a great mountain with mountain's cooling streams; below property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent field=Patient | ||||
| 2 | do in a quote | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | heart in a quote | a stream of love | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | love in a quote | present | the Nourish heart | you | affection nmod:poss | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus |
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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