Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 17
It is difficult to find an equivalent word in the English language, but the Princess describes its meaning.
Who acts: Princess, tongue · What happens: be, find, describe, mean · To what, where: equivalent word, English language, meaning
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 (Princess, tongue), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 difficult | expl |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 difficult | cop |
| 3 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 find | mark |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 difficult | csubj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 word | det |
| 7 | equivalent | equivalent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 word | amod |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 find | obj |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 language | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 language | det |
| 11 | English | English | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 language | amod |
| 12 | language | language | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 word | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 describes | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 17 describes | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Princess | det |
| 16 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 describes | nsubj |
| 17 | describes | describe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 difficult | parataxis |
| 18 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 meaning | nmod:poss |
| 19 | meaning | meaning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 describes | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 difficult | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | to-infinitive | a equivalent word | the English language | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Topic | ||||
| 3 | describe | present | the Princess | tongue's meaning | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent meaning=Theme | ||||
| 4 | mean | tongue | nom meaning «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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