Folk tales from Tibet, The Frog and the Crow., sentence 5
I was just thinking to myself that, as it fortunately happens, my Father lives close by here, on this very roof, and as he is an exceedingly fierce, strong man, he will certainly avenge my death if anyone injures me.”
Who acts: I, it, Father, anyone, my · What happens: think, happen, live, be, avenge, injure · To what, where: myself, roof, fierce strong man, death, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Frog and the Crow.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, it, Father, anyone), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thinking | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | aux |
| 3 | just | just | ADV | _ | 4 thinking | advmod |
| 4 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 myself | case |
| 6 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 thinking | obl |
| 7 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 myself | nmod:unmarked |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 happens | punct |
| 9 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 12 happens | mark |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 happens | nsubj |
| 11 | fortunately | fortunately | ADV | _ | 12 happens | advmod |
| 12 | happens | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thinking | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 lives | punct |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 Father | nmod:poss |
| 15 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 lives | nsubj |
| 16 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 happens | conj |
| 17 | close | close | ADV | Degree=Pos | 16 lives | advmod |
| 18 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 here | case |
| 19 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 lives | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 roof | punct |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 roof | case |
| 22 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 roof | det |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 roof | advmod |
| 24 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lives | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 avenge | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 avenge | cc |
| 27 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 35 man | mark |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 man | nsubj |
| 29 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 man | cop |
| 30 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 man | det |
| 31 | exceedingly | exceedingly | ADV | _ | 32 fierce | advmod |
| 32 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 man | amod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fierce | punct |
| 34 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 man | amod |
| 35 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 avenge | advcl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 man | punct |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 avenge | nsubj |
| 38 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 40 avenge | aux |
| 39 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 40 avenge | advmod |
| 40 | avenge | avenge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 thinking | ccomp |
| 41 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 death | nmod:poss |
| 42 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 avenge | obj |
| 43 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 45 injures | mark |
| 44 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 45 injures | nsubj |
| 45 | injures | injure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 40 avenge | advcl |
| 46 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 injures | obj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 avenge | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thinking | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past · progressive | I | myself | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 2 | happen | present | it | fortunately property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | live | present | my Father | this roof | close property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by here=Location | |||
| 4 | is a | present | Father | a fierce strong man | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | avenge | future | Father | my death | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | injure a condition, not said to happen | present | anyone | me | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | die | my | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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