Folk tales from Tibet, Love Song., sentence 4
As luscious fruit well ripened, Hangs tempting on the tree; So is thy beauty, maiden, Temptation sore to me.
Who acts: Hangs, beauty · What happens: ripen, tempt, be · To what, where: Hangs, tree
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 (Hangs, beauty), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 fruit | case |
| 2 | luscious | luscious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fruit | amod |
| 3 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 ripened | obl |
| 4 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 5 ripened | advmod |
| 5 | ripened | ripen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hangs | punct |
| 7 | Hangs | hang | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 ripened | obj |
| 8 | tempting | tempt | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 Hangs | acl |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 tree | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 tree | det |
| 11 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 tempting | obl |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 maiden | punct |
| 13 | So | so | ADV | _ | 18 maiden | advmod |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 maiden | cop |
| 15 | thy | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 beauty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | beauty | beauty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 maiden | nsubj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 maiden | punct |
| 18 | maiden | maiden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 ripened | parataxis |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Temptation | punct |
| 20 | Temptation | temptation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 maiden | conj |
| 21 | sore | sore | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Temptation | amod |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 me | case |
| 23 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 sore | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 ripened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ripen | participle | Hangs | as luscious fruit; well property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent hang=Patient | ||||
| 2 | tempt | gerund | Hangs not said here | the tree | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | is | present | thy beauty | Temptation conj; maiden property | tree rules |
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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