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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 5

One day it chanced that he drove his cows to graze on the rich pasture on the edge of a small lake, and as he was sitting near the shore of the lake all of a sudden he saw a large white Drake descend from the sky, and light upon the surface of the water.

Who acts: age, child, all, large white Drake · What happens: chance, drive, graze, sit, see, descend · To what, where: cows, shore, light, sky · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (age, child, all, large 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

nummodobl:unmarkednsubjmarknsubjccompnmod:possobjmarkadvclcasedetamodoblcasedetnmodcasedetamodnmodpunctccmarknsubjauxconjcasedetoblcasedetnmodnsubjcasedetnmodnsubjparataxisdetamodamodnsubjccompcasedetoblpunctccoblcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctrootOneNUMdayNOUNitPRONchancedVERBthatSCONJhePRONdroveVERBhisPRONcowsNOUNtoPARTgrazeVERBonADPtheDETrichADJpastureNOUNonADPtheDETedgeNOUNofADPaDETsmallADJlakeNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJasSCONJhePRONwasAUXsittingVERBnearADPtheDETshoreNOUNofADPtheDETlakeNOUNallDETofADPaDETsuddenADJhePRONsawVERBaDETlargeADJwhiteADJDrakePROPNdescendVERBfromADPtheDETskyNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJlightNOUNuponADPtheDETsurfaceNOUNofADPtheDETwaterNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1OneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card2 daynummod
2daydayNOUNNumber=Sing4 chancedobl:unmarked
3ititPRONCase=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 chancednsubj
4chancedchanceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thatthatSCONJ_7 drovemark
6hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs7 drovensubj
7drovedriveVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 chancedccomp
8hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs9 cowsnmod:poss
9cowscowNOUNNumber=Plur7 droveobj
10totoPART_11 grazemark
11grazegrazeVERBVerbForm=Inf7 droveadvcl
12ononADP_15 pasturecase
13thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art15 pasturedet
14richrichADJDegree=Pos15 pastureamod
15pasturepastureNOUNNumber=Sing11 grazeobl
16ononADP_18 edgecase
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 edgedet
18edgeedgeNOUNNumber=Sing15 pasturenmod
19ofofADP_22 lakecase
20aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art22 lakedet
21smallsmallADJDegree=Pos22 lakeamod
22lakelakeNOUNNumber=Sing18 edgenmod
23,,PUNCT_28 sittingpunct
24andandCCONJ_28 sittingcc
25asasSCONJ_28 sittingmark
26hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs28 sittingnsubj
27wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 sittingaux
28sittingsitVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 chancedconj
29nearnearADP_31 shorecase
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 shoredet
31shoreshoreNOUNNumber=Sing28 sittingobl
32ofofADP_34 lakecase
33thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art34 lakedet
34lakelakeNOUNNumber=Sing31 shorenmod
35allallDETPronType=Tot40 sawnsubj
36ofofADP_38 suddencase
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 suddendet
38suddensuddenADJDegree=Pos35 allnmod
39hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs40 sawnsubj
40sawseeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin28 sittingparataxis
41aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art44 Drakedet
42largelargeADJDegree=Pos44 Drakeamod
43whitewhiteADJDegree=Pos44 Drakeamod
44DrakeDrakePROPNNumber=Sing45 descendnsubj
45descenddescendVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin40 sawccomp
46fromfromADP_48 skycase
47thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art48 skydet
48skyskyNOUNNumber=Sing45 descendobl
49,,PUNCT_51 lightpunct
50andandCCONJ_51 lightcc
51lightlightNOUNNumber=Sing40 sawobl
52uponuponADP_54 surfacecase
53thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art54 surfacedet
54surfacesurfaceNOUNNumber=Sing51 lightnmod
55ofofADP_57 watercase
56thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art57 waterdet
57waterwaterNOUNNumber=Sing54 surfacenmod
58..PUNCT_4 chancedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1chancepastagedayvn risk-94-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
2drivepastchildchild's cowsvn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme
3grazeto-infinitivechild not said hereon the rich pasture on the edge of a small lakevn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on pasture=Patient
4sitpast · progressivechildthe shore of the lakevn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near shore=Location
5seepastall of a suddenlight upon the surface of the waterchild nsubjvn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6descendpresenta large white Drakethe skyvn meander-47.7-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from sky=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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