Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 24
“Good-morning, Brother Tree,” said the Musk Deer, “we want to refer a question to you for your decision.”
Who acts: Good morning, we, your · What happens: say, want, refer, decide · To what, where: Musk, question, you · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Good morning, we, your), 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 | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 6 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 7 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Brother | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Musk | det |
| 12 | Musk | musk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 said | obj |
| 13 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 Musk | appos |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 want | punct |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 want | nsubj |
| 17 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | ccomp |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 refer | mark |
| 19 | refer | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 want | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 question | det |
| 21 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 refer | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 refer | obl |
| 24 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 decision | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 decision | nmod:poss |
| 26 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 refer | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Good morning | the Musk | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | want in a quote | present | we | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | refer not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | a question | you | for your decision | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent question=Theme to you=Recipient | ||
| 4 | decide in a quote | your | nom decision «act 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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