Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 53
“Say on, Sister Deer, I am ready to give you my opinion for what it is worth.”
Who acts: you, Buffalo, opinion, my · What happens: say, be, give, opine · To what, where: Sister, opinion · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, Buffalo, opinion, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
| 2 | Say | say | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | on | on | ADV | _ | 2 Say | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Sister | punct |
| 5 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Say | obj |
| 6 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Sister | flat |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 ready | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 ready | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 ready | cop |
| 10 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Say | advcl |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 give | mark |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 ready | xcomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 15 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 what | case |
| 17 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 give | iobj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 worth | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 worth | cop |
| 20 | worth | worth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | imperative | you not said here | Sister | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent sister=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | Buffalo | ready property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | Buffalo not said here | my opinion | you iobj; what iobj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | opinion | worth property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | opine in a quote | my | nom opinion «cognition 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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