Folk tales from Tibet, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs., sentence 4
“When autumn chills destroy the honeyed flowers, The bees must do without their favourite food; So when my passion cools, and dies my love, You should submit to this my changéd mood.”
Who acts: autumn chills, bees, passion, You, my · What happens: destroy, honey, do, cool, die, submit · To what, where: honeyed flowers, love
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 (autumn chills, bees, passion, You), 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 | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 2 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 destroy | mark |
| 3 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 chills | compound |
| 4 | chills | chill | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 destroy | nsubj |
| 5 | destroy | destroy | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | advcl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 flowers | det |
| 7 | honeyed | honey | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 flowers | amod |
| 8 | flowers | flower | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 destroy | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 destroy | punct |
| 10 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bees | det |
| 11 | bees | bee | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 do | nsubj |
| 12 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | aux |
| 13 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 submit | parataxis |
| 14 | without | without | ADP | _ | 17 food | case |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 food | nmod:poss |
| 16 | favourite | favourite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 food | amod |
| 17 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 do | obl |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 cools | punct |
| 19 | So | so | ADV | _ | 23 cools | advmod |
| 20 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 23 cools | mark |
| 21 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 passion | nmod:poss |
| 22 | passion | passion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 cools | nsubj |
| 23 | cools | cool | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 do | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 dies | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 dies | cc |
| 26 | dies | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 cools | conj |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 love | nmod:poss |
| 28 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 dies | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 do | punct |
| 30 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 submit | nsubj |
| 31 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 submit | aux |
| 32 | submit | submit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 33 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 mood | case |
| 34 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 37 mood | nsubj |
| 35 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 mood | nmod:poss |
| 36 | changéd | changéd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 mood | compound |
| 37 | mood | mood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 submit | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 submit | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 32 submit | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | destroy in a quote | present | autumn chills | the honeyed flowers | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flower=Patient | ||||
| 2 | honey in a quote | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do in a quote | must | the bees | without bees's favourite food | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | cool in a quote | present | my passion | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 5 | die in a quote | present | my passion not said here | my love | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | submit in a quote | should | You | to my changéd mood this | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to mood=Theme | ||||
| 7 | love in a quote | my | nom love «feeling transitive»: 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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