Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 92
“You don’t seem to understand at all; that was not how it happened.”
Who acts: You, that, it · What happens: not seem, understand, not be, happen · To what, where: all
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, that, it), 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 | _ | 5 seem | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 seem | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 seem | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 seem | advmod |
| 5 | seem | seem | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 understand | mark |
| 7 | understand | understand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 seem | xcomp |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 all | case |
| 9 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 understand | obl |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 happened | punct |
| 11 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 how | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 how | cop |
| 13 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 14 how | advmod |
| 14 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 happened | advmod |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 happened | nsubj |
| 16 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 seem | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 seem | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 seem | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not seem in a quote | present · do-support | You | vn seem-109-1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Attribute | |||||
| 2 | understand in a quote | to-infinitive | You not said here | all | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not is in a quote | past | that | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | happen in a quote | past | it | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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