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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 46

Next day, at the appointed hour, the Boy went down to the lake as usual, and seated himself in his usual place; and not long afterwards he saw the white Drake and a white Duck flying towards him from the sky.

Who acts: Boy, white Drake · What happens: appoint, go down, seat, see, fly · To what, where: Boy, usual place, white Drake, sky

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, white Drake), 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

amodobl:unmarkedpunctcasedetamodconjpunctdetnsubjadvmodcasedetoblcasenmodpunctccconjobjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctccadvmodadvmodadvmodnsubjconjdetamodobjccdetamodconjxcompcaseoblcasedetoblpunctrootNextADJdayNOUN,PUNCTatADPtheDETappointedVERBhourNOUN,PUNCTtheDETBoyPROPNwentVERBdownADVtoADPtheDETlakeNOUNasADPusualADJ,PUNCTandCCONJseatedVERBhimselfPRONinADPhisPRONusualADJplaceNOUN;PUNCTandCCONJnotPARTlongADVafterwardsADVhePRONsawVERBtheDETwhiteADJDrakePROPNandCCONJaDETwhiteADJDuckPROPNflyingVERBtowardsADPhimPRONfromADPtheDETskyNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NextnextADJDegree=Pos2 dayamod
2daydayNOUNNumber=Sing11 wentobl:unmarked
3,,PUNCT_7 hourpunct
4atatADP_7 hourcase
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art7 hourdet
6appointedappointVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass7 houramod
7hourhourNOUNNumber=Sing2 dayconj
8,,PUNCT_2 daypunct
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Boydet
10BoyBoyPROPNNumber=Sing11 wentnsubj
11wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
12downdownADV_11 wentadvmod
13totoADP_15 lakecase
14thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 lakedet
15lakelakeNOUNNumber=Sing11 wentobl
16asasADP_17 usualcase
17usualusualADJDegree=Pos15 lakenmod
18,,PUNCT_20 seatedpunct
19andandCCONJ_20 seatedcc
20seatedseatVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 wentconj
21himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes20 seatedobj
22ininADP_25 placecase
23hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 placenmod:poss
24usualusualADJDegree=Pos25 placeamod
25placeplaceNOUNNumber=Sing20 seatedobl
26;;PUNCT_32 sawpunct
27andandCCONJ_32 sawcc
28notnotPARTPolarity=Neg29 longadvmod
29longlongADVDegree=Pos32 sawadvmod
30afterwardsafterwardsADV_32 sawadvmod
31hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs32 sawnsubj
32sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin11 wentconj
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 Drakedet
34whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos35 Drakeamod
35DrakeDrakePROPNNumber=Sing32 sawobj
36andandCCONJ_39 Duckcc
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art39 Duckdet
38whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos39 Duckamod
39DuckDuckPROPNNumber=Sing35 Drakeconj
40flyingflyVERBVerbForm=Ger32 sawxcomp
41towardstowardsADP_42 himcase
42himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 flyingobl
43fromfromADP_45 skycase
44thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art45 skydet
45skyskyNOUNNumber=Sing40 flyingobl
46..PUNCT_11 wentpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1appointparticiplevn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2go downpastthe Boydayto the lake as usual; down propertyvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
3seatpastthe Boy not said hereBoyBoy's usual placevn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in place=Location
4seepastBoythe white Drake and a white Duckafterwards, long propertytree rules
5flygerundthe white Drake and a white Duck not said herethe skytowards Boyvn drive-11.5-1 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent towards he=Destination from sky=Initial_Location

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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