Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 1
Could I but win the maiden For whom my heart doth pine, I’d prize her as a jewel From depths of ocean brine.
Who acts: I, heart · What happens: win, do, have, prize · To what, where: maiden, pine, heart
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Love Song.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, 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 | Could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 win | aux |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 win | nsubj |
| 3 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 win | cc |
| 4 | win | win | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 ’d | advcl |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 maiden | det |
| 6 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 win | obj |
| 7 | For | for | ADP | _ | 8 whom | case |
| 8 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 maiden | nmod |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 heart | nmod:poss |
| 10 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doth | nsubj |
| 11 | doth | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 whom | acl:relcl |
| 12 | pine | pine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 doth | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 win | punct |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 ’d | nsubj |
| 15 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | prize | prize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ’d | xcomp |
| 17 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 prize | obj |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 jewel | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 jewel | det |
| 20 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 prize | obl |
| 21 | From | from | ADP | _ | 22 depths | case |
| 22 | depths | depth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 jewel | nmod |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 brine | case |
| 24 | ocean | ocean | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 brine | compound |
| 25 | brine | brine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 depths | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 ’d | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | win | could | I | the maiden | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme for whom=Beneficiary | ||||
| 2 | do | present | my heart | pine | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pine=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | have | past | I | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | prize | infinitive | I not said here | heart | as a jewel from depths of ocean brine | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer she=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/27/1/