Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 1

Once upon a time there were two brothers whose father was dead, and who lived alone with their mother in a big house in a well-cultivated valley.

Who acts: two brothers, father · What happens: be, live, cultivate

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, father), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 were	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	1 Once	obl
5	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	6 were	expl
6	were	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	8 brothers	nummod
8	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 were	nsubj
9	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	10 father	nmod:poss
10	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 dead	nsubj
11	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 dead	cop
12	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 brothers	acl:relcl
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 lived	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 lived	cc
15	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	16 lived	nsubj
16	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 were	conj
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	16 lived	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	20 mother	case
19	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mother	nmod:poss
20	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lived	obl
21	in	in	ADP	_	24 house	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 house	det
23	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 house	amod
24	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 mother	nmod
25	in	in	ADP	_	30 valley	case
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	30 valley	det
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	29 cultivated	advmod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 well	punct
29	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 valley	amod
30	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 house	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 were	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	two brothers	there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past	father		dead property	tree rules
3	live	past			with brothers's mother in a big house in a cultivated valley; who nsubj; alone property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location
4	cultivate	participle			well property	vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 Stone Lion., sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 1