Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 52
The Buffalo gazed at them with her big eyes, and after ruminating for a while she replied slowly:
Who acts: Buffalo · What happens: gaze, ruminate, reply
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 (Buffalo), 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 Buffalo | det |
| 2 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 gazed | nsubj |
| 3 | gazed | gaze | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 them | case |
| 5 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 gazed | obl |
| 6 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 eyes | case |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 eyes | nmod:poss |
| 8 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 eyes | amod |
| 9 | eyes | eye | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 gazed | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 replied | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 replied | cc |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 ruminating | mark |
| 13 | ruminating | ruminate | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 replied | advcl |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 while | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 while | det |
| 16 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 ruminating | obl |
| 17 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 replied | nsubj |
| 18 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 gazed | parataxis |
| 19 | slowly | slowly | ADV | _ | 18 replied | advmod |
| 20 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 3 gazed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gaze | past | the Buffalo | at matters = matter; with Buffalo's big eyes | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at they=Theme | ||||
| 2 | ruminate | gerund | Buffalo not said here | while | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | Buffalo | slowly property | 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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