Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 21

[9] The Monkey’s actual words, I regret to say, cannot be reported verbatim.

Who acts: I, Monkey · What happens: regret, say, not report, word · To what, where: reported verbatim, 9 · 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 (I, Monkey), 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 9	punct
2	9	9	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	root	root
3	]	]	PUNCT	_	2 9	punct
4	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	5 Monkey	det
5	Monkey	Monkey	PROPN	Number=Sing	8 words	nmod:poss
6	’s	's	PART	_	5 Monkey	case
7	actual	actual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 words	amod
8	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 9	obj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 regret	punct
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 regret	nsubj
11	regret	regret	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 9	parataxis
12	to	to	PART	_	13 say	mark
13	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 regret	xcomp
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 reported	punct
15	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 reported	aux
16	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 reported	advmod
17	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	18 reported	aux:pass
18	reported	report	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	19 verbatim	amod
19	verbatim	verbatim	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 say	obj
20	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 9	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	regret	present	I		vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
2	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	I not said here	reported verbatim	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent verbatim=Topic
3	not report	can · passive			vn characterize-29.2-1-2 «NP V NP»
5	word		the Monkey		nom word «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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The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 21