Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 94
So before giving a decision I propose that we all adjourn to the scene of action, and there you can explain to me precisely what occurred.”
Who acts: I, we, you · What happens: give, propose, adjourn, explain, occur · To what, where: decision, me · 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 (I, we, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 7 propose | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 giving | mark |
| 3 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 propose | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 decision | det |
| 5 | decision | decision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 giving | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 propose | nsubj |
| 7 | propose | propose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 11 adjourn | mark |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 adjourn | nsubj |
| 10 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 adjourn | advmod |
| 11 | adjourn | adjourn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 propose | ccomp |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 scene | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 scene | det |
| 14 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 adjourn | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 action | case |
| 16 | action | action | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 scene | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 explain | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 explain | cc |
| 19 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 22 explain | expl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 explain | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 explain | aux |
| 22 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 propose | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 explain | obl |
| 25 | precisely | precisely | ADV | _ | 27 occurred | advmod |
| 26 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 occurred | nsubj |
| 27 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 explain | ccomp |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 propose | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 propose | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | gerund | I not said here | a decision | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent decision=Theme | ||||
| 2 | propose | present | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | adjourn | present | we | to the scene of action | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | can | you | me | there | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | occur | past | what nsubj; precisely property | 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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