Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 78
Still they flew on until, towards nightfall, they arrived at the country of the gods.
Who acts: man · What happens: fly, arrive · To what, where: country
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 (man), 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 | Still | still | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 flew | nsubj |
| 3 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 flew | advmod |
| 5 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 11 arrived | mark |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 until | punct |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 nightfall | case |
| 8 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrived | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 nightfall | punct |
| 10 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 arrived | nsubj |
| 11 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 flew | advcl |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 country | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 country | det |
| 14 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 arrived | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gods | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 gods | det |
| 17 | gods | god | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 country | nmod |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 flew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fly | past | man | still | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | man | the country of the gods | towards nightfall | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards nightfall=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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