Folk tales from Tibet, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs., sentence 6
“Up every rocky cliff some path exists, If one can find a guide to show the way; So to your heart some avenue must lead, Teach me, forthwith, that path of love, I pray.”
Who acts: path, one, guide, avenue, man · What happens: exist, find, show, lead, teach, pray · To what, where: rocky cliff, guide, way, man
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 (path, one, guide, avenue), 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 | _ | 5 cliff | punct |
| 2 | Up | up | ADV | _ | 5 cliff | advmod |
| 3 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 5 cliff | det |
| 4 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 cliff | amod |
| 5 | cliff | cliff | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 path | det |
| 7 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 exists | nsubj |
| 8 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 cliff | acl:relcl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 find | punct |
| 10 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 find | mark |
| 11 | one | one | PRON | Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 find | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 find | aux |
| 13 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 exists | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 guide | det |
| 15 | guide | guide | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 find | obj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 show | mark |
| 17 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 find | xcomp |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 show | obj |
| 20 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 28 lead | punct |
| 21 | So | so | ADV | _ | 28 lead | advmod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 heart | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 heart | nmod:poss |
| 24 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lead | obl |
| 25 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 avenue | det |
| 26 | avenue | avenue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lead | nsubj |
| 27 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 lead | aux |
| 28 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 cliff | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 Teach | punct |
| 30 | Teach | teach | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 lead | xcomp |
| 31 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 Teach | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 forthwith | punct |
| 33 | forthwith | forthwith | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Teach | xcomp |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 path | punct |
| 35 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 path | det |
| 36 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 lead | conj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 love | case |
| 38 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 path | nmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 pray | punct |
| 40 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 41 pray | nsubj |
| 41 | pray | pray | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 28 lead | parataxis |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 cliff | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 cliff | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | exist in a quote | present | some path | every rocky cliff not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | can | one | a guide | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent guide=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show in a quote | to-infinitive | a guide not said here | the way | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent way=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | lead in a quote | must | some avenue | to your heart; that path of love conj | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | teach speech: other in a quote | infinitive | some avenue not said here | a man = man | forthwith property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 6 | pray in a quote | present | a man = man | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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