Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 12
“The soles of my feet are turning yellow, and that, as you know, is a sure sign that I am going to die; so I have prepared myself a grave, and am just waiting here till death comes.”
Who acts: soles, you, turning, Boy, sure sign · What happens: turn, know, be, go, die, prepare · To what, where: that, sure sign, Boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (soles, you, turning, Boy), 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 | _ | 8 turning | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 soles | det |
| 3 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 turning | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 feet | case |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 feet | nmod:poss |
| 6 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 soles | nmod |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turning | aux |
| 8 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sign | csubj |
| 9 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 turning | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 that | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 that | cc |
| 12 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 turning | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 know | mark |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 know | nsubj |
| 16 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 turning | parataxis |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 know | punct |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 sign | cop |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 sign | det |
| 20 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 sign | amod |
| 21 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 comes | nsubj |
| 22 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 going | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 going | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 going | aux |
| 25 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sign | acl |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 die | mark |
| 27 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 going | xcomp |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 prepared | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 prepared | advmod |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 prepared | nsubj |
| 31 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 prepared | aux |
| 32 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 sign | acl |
| 33 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 32 prepared | obj |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 grave | det |
| 35 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 prepared | obj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 waiting | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 waiting | cc |
| 38 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 waiting | aux |
| 39 | just | just | ADV | _ | 40 waiting | advmod |
| 40 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 sign | parataxis |
| 41 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 40 waiting | advmod |
| 42 | till | till | ADP | _ | 43 death | case |
| 43 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 waiting | obl |
| 44 | comes | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 44 comes | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 44 comes | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | turn in a quote | present · progressive | the soles of my feet | that | yellow property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | know in a quote | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | turning | a sure sign | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the Boy = boy | a sure sign not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | die in a quote | to-infinitive | the Boy = boy not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | prepare in a quote | present · perfect | the Boy = boy | the Boy = boy | a grave obj | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent myself=Beneficiary grave=Product | |||
| 7 | wait in a quote | present · progressive | here | till death | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | come in a quote | present | a sure sign | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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