Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 97
Where, for instance, were you, Sister Deer, at the time the Tiger spoke to you?”
Who acts: Sister · What happens: be, speak · To what, where: you · 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 (Sister), 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 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 spoke | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 instance | punct |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 instance | case |
| 4 | instance | instance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Where | appos |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 instance | punct |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 you | cop |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 1 Where | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Where | punct |
| 9 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 spoke | nsubj |
| 10 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sister | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 time | punct |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 Sister | appos |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tiger | det |
| 16 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 time | appos |
| 17 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 spoke | obl |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoke | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 17 spoke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | you | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | speak speech: other | past | Sister | you | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to you=Co-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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