Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 35
On hearing this story the great Tree moved its branches slowly in the breeze and replied as follows:
Who acts: great Tree · What happens: hear, move, reply, follow · To what, where: story, branches, breeze
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 (great 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 moved | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 story | det |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tree | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Tree | amod |
| 7 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | nsubj |
| 8 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 branches | nmod:poss |
| 10 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 moved | obj |
| 11 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 8 moved | advmod |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 breeze | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 breeze | det |
| 14 | breeze | breeze | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 moved | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 replied | cc |
| 16 | replied | reply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 breeze | acl |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 follows | mark |
| 18 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 replied | advcl |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 moved | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the great Tree not said here | this story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | move | past | the great Tree | Tree's branches | the breeze | slowly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent branch=Theme | ||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | participle | the breeze not said here | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | follow | present | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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