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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 day | amod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 hour | punct |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 hour | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 hour | det |
| 6 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 hour | amod |
| 7 | hour | hour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 day | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 day | punct |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Boy | det |
| 10 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 went | nsubj |
| 11 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | down | down | ADV | _ | 11 went | advmod |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 lake | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 lake | det |
| 15 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 went | obl |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 usual | case |
| 17 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 lake | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 seated | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 seated | cc |
| 20 | seated | seat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 20 seated | obj |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 place | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 place | nmod:poss |
| 24 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 place | amod |
| 25 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 seated | obl |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 saw | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 saw | cc |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 long | advmod |
| 29 | long | long | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 saw | advmod |
| 30 | afterwards | afterwards | ADV | _ | 32 saw | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 saw | nsubj |
| 32 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 went | conj |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Drake | det |
| 34 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 Drake | amod |
| 35 | Drake | Drake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 saw | obj |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 Duck | cc |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 Duck | det |
| 38 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Duck | amod |
| 39 | Duck | Duck | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 Drake | conj |
| 40 | flying | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 32 saw | xcomp |
| 41 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 42 him | case |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 flying | obl |
| 43 | from | from | ADP | _ | 45 sky | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 45 sky | det |
| 45 | sky | sky | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 flying | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | go down | past | the Boy | day | to the lake as usual; down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | seat | past | the Boy not said here | Boy | Boy's usual place | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Value in place=Location | |||
| 4 | see | past | Boy | the white Drake and a white Duck | afterwards, long property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | fly | gerund | the white Drake and a white Duck not said here | the sky | towards Boy | vn 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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