Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 25
The Tree waved its branches in the air and replied in a gentle voice:
Who acts: Tree · What happens: wave, reply · To what, where: branches, gentle voice
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 (Tree), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tree | det |
| 2 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 waved | nsubj |
| 3 | waved | wave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 branches | nmod:poss |
| 5 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 waved | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 air | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 air | det |
| 8 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 waved | obl |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 replied | cc |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 waved | conj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 voice | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 voice | det |
| 13 | gentle | gentle | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 voice | amod |
| 14 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 waved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wave | past | the Tree | Tree's branches | in the air | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent branch=Patient in air=Theme | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | participle | the Tree not said here | a gentle voice | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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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