Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 3

Every day, when he grew big enough, he used to drive the cows out to pasture, and all day long he sat about on the hillsides watching the cattle graze.

Who acts: child, hillsides · What happens: grow, use, drive out, pasture, sit about, watch · To what, where: cows, hillsides, cattle graze

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 (child, hillsides), 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grew	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
4	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	6 grew	advmod
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 grew	nsubj
6	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grew	xcomp
8	enough	enough	ADV	_	7 big	advmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 used	punct
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	11 used	nsubj
11	used	use	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
12	to	to	PART	_	13 drive	mark
13	drive	drive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 used	xcomp
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 cows	det
15	cows	cow	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 drive	obj
16	out	out	ADV	_	13 drive	advmod
17	to	to	PART	_	18 pasture	mark
18	pasture	pasture	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 drive	advcl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 sat	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 sat	cc
21	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	22 day	det
22	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 sat	obl:unmarked
23	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 day	advmod
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 sat	nsubj
25	sat	sit	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grew	conj
26	about	about	ADV	_	25 sat	advmod
27	on	on	ADP	_	29 hillsides	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 hillsides	det
29	hillsides	hillside	NOUN	Number=Plur	25 sat	obl
30	watching	watch	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	29 hillsides	acl
31	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 graze	det
32	cattle	cattle	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 graze	compound
33	graze	graze	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 watching	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grew	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	grow	past	child			day	big property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	use	past	child					vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	drive out	to-infinitive	child not said here	the cows			out property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
4	pasture	to-infinitive	child not said here					vn pocket-9.10 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent
5	sit about	past	child		the hillsides	day	about property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on hillside=Location
6	watch	gerund	the hillsides not said here	the cattle graze				vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent graze=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 3

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 3