Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 95
He soon deposited the youth and his wife on the ground near their old home, where he bade them farewell and returned to his own nest.
Who acts: husband · What happens: deposit, bade, return · To what, where: youth, ground, heavens
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 (husband), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 deposited | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 deposited | advmod |
| 3 | deposited | deposit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 youth | det |
| 5 | youth | youth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deposited | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 wife | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 wife | nmod:poss |
| 8 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 youth | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 ground | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 ground | det |
| 11 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deposited | obl |
| 12 | near | near | ADP | _ | 15 home | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 home | nmod:poss |
| 14 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 home | amod |
| 15 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 deposited | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bade | punct |
| 17 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 bade | advmod |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bade | nsubj |
| 19 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 deposited | conj |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 bade | obj |
| 21 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 19 bade | advmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 returned | cc |
| 23 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 bade | conj |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 nest | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 nest | nmod:poss |
| 26 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 nest | amod |
| 27 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 returned | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 deposited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | deposit | past | husband | the youth and husband's wife | the ground | near heavens's old home; soon property | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent youth=Theme on ground=Destination | ||
| 2 | bade | past | husband | heavens = heaven | farewell property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | return | past | husband not said here | to husband's own nest result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to nest=Result |
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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