Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 3
My wanderings all behind me, I’d know no earthly care.
Who acts: wanderings, My · What happens: have, know, wander · To what, where: earthly care
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 (wanderings, My), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 wanderings | nmod:poss |
| 2 | wanderings | wandering | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 ’d | nsubj |
| 3 | all | all | ADV | _ | 5 me | advmod |
| 4 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 5 me | case |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 wanderings | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 wanderings | punct |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 ’d | nsubj |
| 8 | ’d | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 ’d | xcomp |
| 10 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 care | det |
| 11 | earthly | earthly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 care | amod |
| 12 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 know | obj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 ’d | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | past | My wanderings behind me | I nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | infinitive | My wanderings behind me not said here | no earthly care | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer care=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | wander | My | behind me | nom wandering «act transitive»: poss=agent behind=obl |
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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