Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 31
“Here I am, Brother Rambé,” came the shrill voice from the rear.
Who acts: Ambé, shrill voice · What happens: be, come · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Ambé, shrill voice), 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 Here | punct |
| 2 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 came | parataxis |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Here | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Here | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 6 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Here | vocative |
| 7 | Rambé | Rambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Brother | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Here | punct |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 voice | det |
| 12 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 voice | amod |
| 13 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | nsubj |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 rear | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 rear | det |
| 16 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 voice | nmod |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Ambé | Brother vocative; here property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | past | the shrill voice from the rear | tree rules |
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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