Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 61
On hearing this statement the old Buffalo continued to chew the cud for some minutes, and then replied gravely:
Who acts: old Buffalo · What happens: hear, continue, chew, reply · To what, where: statement, cud
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 (old 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 continued | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 statement | det |
| 4 | statement | statement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Buffalo | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Buffalo | amod |
| 7 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 continued | nsubj |
| 8 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 chew | mark |
| 10 | chew | chew | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 continued | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cud | det |
| 12 | cud | cud | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chew | obj |
| 13 | for | for | ADP | _ | 15 minutes | case |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 minutes | det |
| 15 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 chew | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 replied | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 replied | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 replied | advmod |
| 19 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 continued | conj |
| 20 | gravely | gravely | ADV | _ | 19 replied | advmod |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 continued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the old Buffalo not said here | this statement | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer statement=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | continue | past | the old Buffalo | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | chew | to-infinitive | the old Buffalo not said here | the cud | minute | vn chew-39.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cud=Patient | |||
| 4 | reply speech: assert | past | the old Buffalo not said here | then | gravely 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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