Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 59

For some days he wandered on and on, scarcely conscious of what he was doing, and at length, having passed beyond the part of the country which he knew, he arrived one day about noon on the shores of a vast expanse of water which stretched before him as far as he could see.

Who acts: word, vast expanse · What happens: wander, do, pass, know, arrive, stretch · To what, where: length, country, shores, word

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 (word, vast expanse), 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	For	for	ADP	_	3 days	case
2	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	3 days	det
3	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	5 wandered	obl
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 wandered	nsubj
5	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	on	on	ADV	_	5 wandered	advmod
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 on	cc
8	on	on	ADV	_	6 on	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 conscious	punct
10	scarcely	scarcely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 conscious	amod
11	conscious	conscious	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 wandered	advcl
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 what	case
13	what	what	PRON	PronType=Rel	11 conscious	obl
14	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 doing	nsubj
15	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 doing	aux
16	doing	do	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 what	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 passed	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 passed	cc
19	at	at	ADP	_	20 length	case
20	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 length	punct
22	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 passed	aux
23	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 wandered	conj
24	beyond	beyond	ADP	_	26 part	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 part	det
26	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 passed	obl
27	of	of	ADP	_	29 country	case
28	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 country	det
29	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 part	nmod
30	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	32 knew	obj
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 knew	nsubj
32	knew	know	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	29 country	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 arrived	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 arrived	nsubj
35	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 wandered	conj
36	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	37 day	nummod
37	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 arrived	obl:unmarked
38	about	about	ADP	_	39 noon	case
39	noon	noon	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 day	nmod
40	on	on	ADP	_	42 shores	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 shores	det
42	shores	shore	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 arrived	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	46 expanse	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	46 expanse	det
45	vast	vast	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 expanse	amod
46	expanse	expanse	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 shores	nmod
47	of	of	ADP	_	48 water	case
48	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 expanse	nmod
49	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	50 stretched	nsubj
50	stretched	stretch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	46 expanse	acl:relcl
51	before	before	ADV	_	50 stretched	advmod
52	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	50 stretched	obj
53	as	as	ADV	_	54 far	advmod
54	far	far	ADV	Degree=Pos	50 stretched	advmod
55	as	as	SCONJ	_	58 see	mark
56	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 see	nsubj
57	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	58 see	aux
58	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 far	advcl
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	wander	past	word			day		vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	do	past · progressive	word					vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	pass	gerund · perfect	word not said here		length		beyond the part of the country	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme at length=Location
4	know	past	word	the country				vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus
5	arrive	past	word		the shores of a vast expanse of water	day		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	stretch	past	a vast expanse of water	word			before, far property	vn bend-45.2 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent he=Patient
7	see	could	word					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer

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 59

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 59