Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 67
Does it remember its old mother with gratitude, and fend for her in her old age?
Who acts: power · What happens: remember, fend · To what, where: old mother, old age
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 (power), 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 | Does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 remember | aux |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 remember | nsubj |
| 3 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 mother | nmod:poss |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 mother | amod |
| 6 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 remember | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 8 gratitude | case |
| 8 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 mother | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 fend | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 fend | cc |
| 11 | fend | fend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 remember | conj |
| 12 | for | for | ADP | _ | 13 her | case |
| 13 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 fend | obl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 age | case |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 age | nmod:poss |
| 16 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 age | amod |
| 17 | age | age | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 fend | obl |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 remember | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | remember | present · do-support | power | power's old mother | with gratitude | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent mother=Theme | |||
| 2 | fend | infinitive | power not said here | in Calf's old age | for Calf | 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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