Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 50
The Boy now led his bride home to his father and mother, and next day the marriage was duly completed.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: lead, complete · To what, where: bride, father, marriage
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), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 led | nsubj |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 led | advmod |
| 4 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 bride | nmod:poss |
| 6 | bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obj |
| 7 | home | home | ADV | _ | 4 led | advmod |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 father | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 led | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 mother | cc |
| 12 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 father | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 completed | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 completed | cc |
| 15 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 day | amod |
| 16 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 completed | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 marriage | det |
| 18 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 completed | aux:pass |
| 20 | duly | duly | ADV | _ | 21 completed | advmod |
| 21 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 led | conj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 led | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lead | past | the Boy | Boy's bride | Boy's father and mother | now | home property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bride=Theme to father=Destination | |
| 2 | complete | past · passive | the marriage | day | duly property | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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