Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 5
I am shut up inside, and as I have nothing to eat and drink I am afraid of starving to death.”
Who acts: I · What happens: shut up, have, eat, drink, be, starve · To what, where: I, nothing
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), 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 | 3 shut | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shut | aux:pass |
| 3 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 shut | compound:prt |
| 5 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 3 shut | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 have | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 have | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 have | mark |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 have | nsubj |
| 10 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 shut | conj |
| 11 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 10 have | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 eat | mark |
| 13 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 nothing | acl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 drink | cc |
| 15 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 eat | conj |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 afraid | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 afraid | cop |
| 18 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 drink | ccomp |
| 19 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 20 starving | mark |
| 20 | starving | starve | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 afraid | advcl |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 death | case |
| 22 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 starving | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 shut | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 shut | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | shut up | present · passive | I | inside property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 2 | have | present | I | nothing | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nothing=Patient | ||||
| 3 | eat | to-infinitive | I not said here | nothing not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | drink | infinitive | I not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | starve | gerund | I not said here | to death | 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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