Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 38
I grow here by the roadside and spread my branches over the dusty highway ready to give shelter to man and beast in their shade.
Who acts: I, branches · What happens: grow, spread, give, shade · To what, where: branches, dusty highway, shelter, man
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 (I, branches), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 grow | nsubj |
| 2 | grow | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 2 grow | advmod |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 roadside | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 roadside | det |
| 6 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 grow | obl |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 spread | cc |
| 8 | spread | spread | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 grow | conj |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 branches | nmod:poss |
| 10 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 spread | obj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 highway | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 highway | det |
| 13 | dusty | dusty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 highway | amod |
| 14 | highway | highway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 spread | obl |
| 15 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 spread | parataxis |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 give | mark |
| 17 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 ready | xcomp |
| 18 | shelter | shelter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 give | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 beast | cc |
| 22 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | conj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 shade | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 shade | nmod:poss |
| 25 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 man | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 grow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | I | here | by the roadside | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by roadside=Location | |||
| 2 | spread | past | I not said here | my branches | the dusty highway | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent branch=Theme over highway=Destination | |||
| 3 | give | to-infinitive | I not said here | shelter | man in branches's shade and beast | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent shelter=Theme to man=Recipient | |||
| 4 | shade | branches = branch | nom shade «state 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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