Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 10
It dropped the grain on the table, and after giving one or two chirps it said to the man:
Who acts: step · What happens: drop, give, say · To what, where: grain, table, one chirps, man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (step), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 dropped | nsubj |
| 2 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 grain | det |
| 4 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dropped | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 table | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 table | det |
| 7 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 dropped | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 giving | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 giving | cc |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 giving | mark |
| 11 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 dropped | advcl |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 chirps | nummod |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 14 two | cc |
| 14 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 one | conj |
| 15 | chirps | chirp | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 giving | obj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 said | nsubj |
| 17 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 chirps | acl:relcl |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 man | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 man | det |
| 20 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 said | obl |
| 21 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 2 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | drop | past | step | the grain | the table | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grain=Theme on table=Destination | |||
| 2 | give | gerund | step not said here | one chirps | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent chirp=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | step | one chirps not said here | the man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent chirp=Topic to man=Recipient |
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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