Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 63
The father flew into a violent rage and stormed at his neighbour, Cham-ba, for some time, but without producing any impression.
Who acts: father · What happens: fly, storm, produce · To what, where: violent rage, neighbour, impression
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 (father), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 father | det |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 rage | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 rage | det |
| 6 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 rage | amod |
| 7 | rage | rage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 flew | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 stormed | cc |
| 9 | stormed | storm | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | conj |
| 10 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 neighbour | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 12 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stormed | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ba | punct |
| 14 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 ba | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 Cham | punct |
| 16 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 neighbour | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 time | punct |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 time | case |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 time | det |
| 20 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 stormed | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 producing | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 producing | cc |
| 23 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 24 producing | mark |
| 24 | producing | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 flew | advcl |
| 25 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 impression | det |
| 26 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 producing | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | the father | into a violent rage result | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into rage=Result | ||||
| 2 | storm | past | the father not said here | father's neighbour and Cham ba | time | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | |||
| 3 | produce | gerund | the father not said here | any impression | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent impression=Result |
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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