Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 23
[11] There is a play on the words of the Tibetan original here which explains this point, but which is incapable of adequate translation into English.
Who acts: play, Tibetan original · What happens: be, explain, word · To what, where: 11, English, point, incapable, Tibetan original
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 (play, Tibetan original), 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 11 | punct |
| 2 | 11 | 11 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 5 is | obl |
| 3 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 2 11 | punct |
| 4 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 5 is | expl |
| 5 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 play | det |
| 7 | play | play | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 is | nsubj |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 words | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 words | det |
| 10 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 play | nmod |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 original | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 original | det |
| 13 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 original | compound |
| 14 | original | original | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 words | nmod |
| 15 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 original | advmod |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 explains | nsubj |
| 17 | explains | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 original | acl:relcl |
| 18 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 point | det |
| 19 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 explains | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 incapable | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 incapable | cc |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 incapable | nsubj |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 incapable | cop |
| 24 | incapable | incapable | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 play | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 translation | case |
| 26 | adequate | adequate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 translation | amod |
| 27 | translation | translation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 incapable | nmod |
| 28 | into | into | ADP | _ | 29 English | case |
| 29 | English | English | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 is | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 is | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | does | present | a play on the words of the Tibetan original but incapable | 11 | English; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | present | the Tibetan original | this point | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent point=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | a play on the words of the Tibetan original but incapable | incapable | of adequate translation | tree rules | |||
| 4 | word | the Tibetan original | nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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