Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 12

At last he determined that he would try to catch this Drake for himself, so he wove himself a long rope of yaks’ hair, big enough to completely encircle the lake, and he laid this upon the shore in a loop extending right round the lake; and at short intervals along the rope he fastened loops made of the finest horse hair, the loose ends of which he left floating in the water.

Who acts: Boy, loop · What happens: determine, try, catch, weave, encircle, lay · To what, where: last, Drake, Boy, lake, this, shore

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Boy, loop), 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	At	at	ADP	_	2 last	case
2	last	last	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 determined	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 determined	nsubj
4	determined	determine	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 try	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 try	nsubj
7	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 try	aux
8	try	try	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 determined	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 catch	mark
10	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 try	xcomp
11	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 Drake	det
12	Drake	drake	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 catch	obj
13	for	for	ADP	_	14 himself	case
14	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	10 catch	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 wove	punct
16	so	so	ADV	_	18 wove	advmod
17	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 wove	nsubj
18	wove	weave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 determined	conj
19	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 wove	obj
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	22 rope	det
21	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 rope	amod
22	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 wove	obj
23	of	of	ADP	_	26 hair	case
24	yaks	yak	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 hair	nmod:poss
25	’	's	PART	_	24 yaks	case
26	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 rope	nmod
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 big	punct
28	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 hair	amod
29	enough	enough	ADV	_	28 big	advmod
30	to	to	PART	_	32 encircle	mark
31	completely	completely	ADV	_	32 encircle	advmod
32	encircle	encircle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 big	advcl
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 lake	det
34	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 encircle	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 laid	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 laid	cc
37	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 laid	nsubj
38	laid	lay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 determined	conj
39	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 laid	obj
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 shore	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 shore	det
42	shore	shore	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 laid	obl
43	in	in	ADP	_	45 loop	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 loop	det
45	loop	loop	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 shore	nmod
46	extending	extend	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	45 loop	acl
47	right	right	ADV	_	50 lake	advmod
48	round	round	ADP	_	50 lake	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 lake	det
50	lake	lake	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 extending	obj
51	;	;	PUNCT	_	55 intervals	punct
52	and	and	CCONJ	_	55 intervals	cc
53	at	at	ADP	_	55 intervals	case
54	short	short	ADJ	Degree=Pos	55 intervals	amod
55	intervals	interval	NOUN	Number=Plur	4 determined	obl
56	along	along	ADP	_	58 rope	case
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	58 rope	det
58	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 intervals	nmod
59	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	60 fastened	nsubj
60	fastened	fasten	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	58 rope	acl:relcl
61	loops	loop	NOUN	Number=Plur	60 fastened	obj
62	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	61 loops	acl
63	of	of	ADP	_	67 hair	case
64	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	67 hair	det
65	finest	fine	ADJ	Degree=Sup	67 hair	amod
66	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 hair	compound
67	hair	hair	NOUN	Number=Sing	62 made	obl
68	,	,	PUNCT	_	71 ends	punct
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 ends	det
70	loose	loose	ADJ	Degree=Pos	71 ends	amod
71	ends	end	NOUN	Number=Plur	55 intervals	conj
72	of	of	ADP	_	73 which	case
73	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	75 left	obl
74	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	75 left	nsubj
75	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	71 ends	acl:relcl
76	floating	float	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	75 left	xcomp
77	in	in	ADP	_	79 water	case
78	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	79 water	det
79	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	76 floating	obl
80	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 determined	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	determine	past	Boy		last		at short intervals along the rope and the loose ends	vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2	try	would	Boy					vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	catch not said to happen	to-infinitive	Boy not said here	this Drake			for Boy	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent drake=Theme for himself=Beneficiary
4	weave	past	Boy	Boy			a long rope of yaks's hair obj	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP PP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary rope=Product
5	encircle	to-infinitive	Boy not said here	the lake			completely property	vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme lake=Co-Theme
6	lay	past	Boy	this	the shore in a loop			vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent this=Theme upon shore=Destination
7	extend	gerund	a loop not said here	the lake				vn body_motion-49.2-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent lake=Theme
8	fasten	past	Boy	loops				vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent loop=Patient
9	make	participle		loops not said here			of the finest horse hair	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset
10	leave	past	Boy			of the loose ends		tree rules
11	float	gerund	Boy not said here		the water			vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in water=Trajectory

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 12

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 12