Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 30
Every day he used to go and watch the spot, carefully examining the young shoots to see how they were getting on.
Who acts: change, shoots · What happens: use, go, watch, examine, see, get on · To what, where: spot, young shoots · 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, shoots), 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 | Every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 day | det |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 used | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 used | nsubj |
| 4 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 go | mark |
| 6 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 used | xcomp |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 watch | cc |
| 8 | watch | watch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 go | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 spot | det |
| 10 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 watch | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 examining | punct |
| 12 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 13 examining | advmod |
| 13 | examining | examine | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 used | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 shoots | det |
| 15 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 shoots | amod |
| 16 | shoots | shoot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 examining | obj |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 see | mark |
| 18 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 examining | advcl |
| 19 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 22 getting | advmod |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 getting | nsubj |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 getting | aux |
| 22 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 see | ccomp |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 getting | compound:prt |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 used | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | use | past | change | day | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | to-infinitive | change not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | watch | infinitive | change not said here | the spot | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spot=Theme | ||||
| 4 | examine | gerund | change not said here | the young shoots | carefully property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shoot=Theme | |||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | change not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 6 | get on | past · progressive | shoots = shoot | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer |
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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