Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 98
“I was down here drinking at the stream, so,” replied the Deer, going off to the place in question.
Who acts: Deer, I · What happens: drink, reply, go off · To what, where: stream · 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 (Deer, I), 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 | _ | 6 drinking | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 drinking | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drinking | aux |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 here | advmod |
| 5 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 drinking | advmod |
| 6 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 stream | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 stream | det |
| 9 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 drinking | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 replied | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 replied | punct |
| 14 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 drinking | conj |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Deer | det |
| 16 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 replied | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 drinking | conj |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 going | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 place | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 place | det |
| 22 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 going | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 question | case |
| 24 | question | question | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 place | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 drinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drink in a quote | past · progressive | the Deer = deer | the stream; here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Deer | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | go off | gerund | I not said here | to the place in question | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: 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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