Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 20
[8] Another version of the story says cakes of dried yaks’ dung instead of sticks—see accompanying illustration.
Who acts: version · What happens: say, dry, see, accompany · To what, where: 8, illustration · 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: who acts (version), 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 8 | punct |
| 2 | 8 | 8 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 9 says | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 8 | punct |
| 4 | Another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 version | det |
| 5 | version | version | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 says | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 story | det |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 version | nmod |
| 9 | says | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | cakes | cake | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 says | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 dung | case |
| 12 | dried | dry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 yaks | amod |
| 13 | yaks | yak | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 dung | nmod:poss |
| 14 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 13 yaks | case |
| 15 | dung | dung | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 cakes | nmod |
| 16 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 18 sticks | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 instead | fixed |
| 18 | sticks | stick | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 says | obl |
| 19 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 see | punct |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 says | conj |
| 21 | accompanying | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 20 see | xcomp |
| 22 | illustration | illustration | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 accompanying | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 says | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | present | another version of the story | 8 | instead sticks; cakes of dried yaks's dung obj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent cake=Topic | |||
| 2 | dry | participle | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 3 | see | infinitive | another version of the story not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | accompany | gerund | another version of the story not said here | illustration | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent illustration=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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