Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 96
Some of these stories being rather too wonderful for belief, the young Man bluntly said that he could not believe them.
Who acts: stories, young Man, man · What happens: be, say, not believe · To what, where: stories · 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 (stories, young Man, man), 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 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 stories | det |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 4 stories | case |
| 3 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 4 stories | det |
| 4 | stories | story | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 wonderful | nsubj |
| 5 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 wonderful | cop |
| 6 | rather | rather | ADV | _ | 8 wonderful | advmod |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 wonderful | advmod |
| 8 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 belief | case |
| 10 | belief | belief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 wonderful | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 said | punct |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Man | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 Man | amod |
| 14 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 said | nsubj |
| 15 | bluntly | bluntly | ADV | _ | 16 said | advmod |
| 16 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 wonderful | conj |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 believe | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 believe | nsubj |
| 19 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 believe | aux |
| 20 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 believe | advmod |
| 21 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 said | ccomp |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 believe | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 wonderful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | gerund | some stories | for belief; wonderful property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | the young Man | bluntly property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | not believe | could | man | stories = story | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer they=Stimulus |
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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