Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 11
[2] But I am preserving such of these as appear to me to possess any scientific interest.
Who acts: I · What happens: preserve, appear, possess · To what, where: me, scientific interest
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), 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 | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 2 | 2 | 2 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 7 preserving | discourse |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 2 | punct |
| 4 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 preserving | cc |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 preserving | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 preserving | aux |
| 7 | preserving | preserve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 appear | nsubj |
| 8 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos ExtPos=ADP | 7 preserving | xcomp |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 as | case |
| 10 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 11 as | det |
| 11 | as | a | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 such | obl |
| 12 | appear | appear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 appear | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 possess | mark |
| 16 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 appear | advcl |
| 17 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 interest | det |
| 18 | scientific | scientific | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 interest | amod |
| 19 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 possess | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 appear | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | preserve | present · progressive | I | 2 discourse; such property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | appear | present | me | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | possess | to-infinitive | any scientific interest | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot interest=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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