Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 55
“Where is my son?” asked Tse-ring, “and how is he getting on?”
Who acts: son, Tse ring · What happens: be, ask, get on · 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 (son, Tse ring), 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 | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 2 | Where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 asked | advmod |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Where | cop |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 son | nmod:poss |
| 5 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Where | nsubj |
| 6 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Where | punct |
| 8 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Tse | Tse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 ring | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Tse | punct |
| 11 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 asked | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 asked | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 getting | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 getting | cc |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 getting | advmod |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 getting | aux |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 getting | nsubj |
| 18 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 asked | advcl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 getting | compound:prt |
| 20 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 18 getting | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 getting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | my son | where property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | past | Tse ring | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | get on in a quote | present · progressive | Son | 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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