Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 12
[3] Such a locality is described in the Tibetan language by a single word—a monosyllable.
Who acts: single word · What happens: describe · To what, where: 3, Tibetan language
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 (single word), 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 3 | punct |
| 2 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 described | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 3 | punct |
| 4 | Such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 6 locality | det:predet |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 locality | det |
| 6 | locality | locality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 described | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 described | aux:pass |
| 8 | described | describe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 language | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 language | det |
| 11 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 language | compound |
| 12 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 described | obl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 word | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 word | det |
| 15 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 word | amod |
| 16 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 described | obl |
| 17 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 monosyllable | punct |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 monosyllable | det |
| 19 | monosyllable | monosyllable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 word | appos |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 described | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | describe | present · passive | a single word | 3 | the Tibetan language | such locality nsubj:pass | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent subject=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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