Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 56
Cham-ba said nothing, but picked up the Monkey and carried it to him.
Who acts: Cham ba · What happens: say, pick up, carry · To what, where: nothing, Monkey, Son · 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 (Cham ba), 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 | Cham | cham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ba | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cham | punct |
| 3 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 picked | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 picked | cc |
| 8 | picked | pick | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 said | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 picked | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Monkey | det |
| 11 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 picked | obj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 carried | cc |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 picked | conj |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | obj |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 carried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cham ba | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | pick up | participle | Cham ba not said here | the Monkey | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent monkey=Topic | ||||
| 3 | carry | past | Cham ba not said here | Monkey | Son | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to he=Destination |
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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