Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 74
“Good-morning, Brother Hare,” called out the Musk Deer; “could you spare us a few moments to give us an opinion upon a point of difference which has arisen between this Tiger and myself?”
Who acts: Musk Deer, you · What happens: call out, spare, give, arise, point · To what, where: us, opinion, point, difference · 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 (Musk Deer, you), 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 | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 6 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Brother | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Deer | det |
| 13 | Musk | Musk | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 Deer | compound |
| 14 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | obj |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 spare | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 spare | punct |
| 17 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 spare | aux |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 spare | nsubj |
| 19 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 called | conj |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 spare | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 moments | det |
| 22 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 moments | amod |
| 23 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 spare | obj |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 give | mark |
| 25 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 spare | advcl |
| 26 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 give | iobj |
| 27 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 opinion | det |
| 28 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obj |
| 29 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 31 point | case |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 point | det |
| 31 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 give | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 difference | case |
| 33 | difference | difference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 point | nmod |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 arisen | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 arisen | aux |
| 36 | arisen | arise | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 point | acl:relcl |
| 37 | between | between | ADP | _ | 39 Tiger | case |
| 38 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 39 Tiger | det |
| 39 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 36 arisen | obl |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 myself | cc |
| 41 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 Tiger | conj |
| 42 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: ask | participle | the Musk Deer | morning | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | spare in a quote | could | you | us | moment | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Asset | |||
| 3 | give in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | a opinion | us | upon a point of difference | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient opinion=Theme | ||
| 4 | arise in a quote | present · perfect · passive | a point of difference | between this Tiger myself | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 5 | point in a quote | difference | nom point «cognition transitive»: of=patient |
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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