Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 23
He then went down, picked up the young Sparrow, bound up its leg with a piece of thread, and put it back into its nest, saying as he did so that he hoped it would remember his kindness.
Who acts: change, young Sparrow, nest · What happens: go down, pick up, bind up, put back, say, do · To what, where: young Sparrow, leg, nest, kindness · 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 (change, young Sparrow, nest), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 went | advmod |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | down | down | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 picked | punct |
| 6 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 went | conj |
| 7 | up | up | ADP | _ | 6 picked | compound:prt |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sparrow | det |
| 9 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Sparrow | amod |
| 10 | Sparrow | Sparrow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 picked | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bound | punct |
| 12 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 Sparrow | acl |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 bound | compound:prt |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 leg | nmod:poss |
| 15 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 piece | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 piece | det |
| 18 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thread | case |
| 20 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 piece | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 put | cc |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | conj |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | back | back | ADV | _ | 23 put | advmod |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 nest | case |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 nest | nmod:poss |
| 28 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 saying | punct |
| 30 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 put | advcl |
| 31 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 33 did | mark |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 did | nsubj |
| 33 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 saying | ccomp |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 37 hoped | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 hoped | nsubj |
| 37 | hoped | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 did | advcl |
| 38 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 remember | nsubj |
| 39 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 remember | aux |
| 40 | remember | remember | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 hoped | ccomp |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 42 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 remember | obj |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go down | past | change | then | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 2 | pick up | participle | change not said here | the young Sparrow | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | bind up | participle | the young Sparrow not said here | nest's leg | with a piece of thread | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient with piece=Co-Patient | |||
| 4 | put back | infinitive | change not said here | nest | nest's nest | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent it=Goal | |||
| 5 | say speech: assert | gerund | change not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | do | past | change | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | hope | past | change | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | remember | would | nest | change's kindness | vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent kindness=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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