Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 62
On hearing this voice emerging from the upper branches of the tree, the travellers were greatly alarmed.
Who acts: voice · What happens: hear, emerge, alarm · To what, where: voice, upper branches, travellers
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 (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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 alarmed | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 voice | det |
| 4 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | emerging | emerge | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 voice | acl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 branches | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 branches | det |
| 8 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 branches | amod |
| 9 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 emerging | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 tree | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tree | det |
| 12 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 branches | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 travellers | det |
| 15 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 alarmed | nsubj:pass |
| 16 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 alarmed | aux:pass |
| 17 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 18 alarmed | advmod |
| 18 | alarmed | alarm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 alarmed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this voice | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer voice=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | emerge | gerund | this voice not said here | the upper branches of the tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from branch=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | alarm | past · passive | the travellers | greatly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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