Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 14
[5] This story is also told of a Sheep and a Goat, instead of a Sheep and a Lamb.
What happens: tell · To what, where: 5 story · Speech: someone speaks here
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: 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 5 | punct |
| 2 | 5 | 5 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 story | nummod |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 5 | punct |
| 4 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 story | det |
| 5 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux:pass |
| 7 | also | also | ADV | _ | 8 told | advmod |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Sheep | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Sheep | det |
| 11 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 Goat | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Goat | det |
| 14 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Sheep | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 Sheep | punct |
| 16 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 19 Sheep | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 instead | fixed |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 Sheep | det |
| 19 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 told | parataxis |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 Lamb | cc |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 Lamb | det |
| 22 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 Sheep | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | this 5 story | of a Sheep and a Goat | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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