Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 20

The young man replied that having been driven from his home by his proud and hard-hearted brother, he was now engaged in earning his livelihood by chopping wood upon that hill; and that, thinking that the Lion must be the guardian deity of the mountain, he had considered it right to make him some sort of an offering, and to request his continued patronage and assistance.

Who acts: young man, proud hearted brother, that, Lion, boy · What happens: reply, drive, engage, earn, chop, think · To what, where: home, boy, livelihood, wood, hill, guardian deity · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (young man, proud hearted brother, that, Lion), 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	3 man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 man	amod
3	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 replied	nsubj
4	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	8 driven	mark
6	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	8 driven	aux
7	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	8 driven	aux:pass
8	driven	drive	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	4 replied	ccomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 home	case
10	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 home	nmod:poss
11	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 driven	obl
12	by	by	ADP	_	19 brother	case
13	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	19 brother	nmod:poss
14	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 brother	amod
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 hard	cc
16	hard	hard	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 hearted	amod
17	-	-	PUNCT	_	16 hard	punct
18	hearted	hearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	19 brother	amod
19	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 driven	obl
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 engaged	punct
21	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 engaged	nsubj:pass
22	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 engaged	aux:pass
23	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	24 engaged	advmod
24	engaged	engage	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	8 driven	conj
25	in	in	SCONJ	_	26 earning	mark
26	earning	earn	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	24 engaged	advcl
27	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 livelihood	nmod:poss
28	livelihood	livelihood	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 earning	obj
29	by	by	SCONJ	_	30 chopping	mark
30	chopping	chop	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 earning	advcl
31	wood	wood	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 chopping	obj
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	34 hill	case
33	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	34 hill	det
34	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 chopping	obl
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 thinking	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 thinking	cc
37	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	39 thinking	nsubj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 thinking	punct
39	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 replied	advcl
40	that	that	SCONJ	_	47 deity	mark
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 Lion	det
42	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	47 deity	nsubj
43	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	47 deity	aux
44	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	47 deity	cop
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	47 deity	det
46	guardian	guardian	ADJ	Degree=Pos	47 deity	amod
47	deity	deity	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 thinking	ccomp
48	of	of	ADP	_	50 mountain	case
49	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 mountain	det
50	mountain	mountain	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 deity	nmod
51	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 considered	punct
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 considered	nsubj
53	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 considered	aux
54	considered	consider	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 replied	conj
55	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	54 considered	obj
56	right	right	ADV	_	58 make	advmod
57	to	to	PART	_	58 make	mark
58	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	54 considered	advcl
59	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	58 make	obj
60	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	61 sort	det
61	sort	sort	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 make	obj
62	of	of	ADP	_	64 offering	case
63	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	64 offering	det
64	offering	offering	NOUN	Number=Sing	61 sort	nmod
65	,	,	PUNCT	_	68 request	punct
66	and	and	CCONJ	_	68 request	cc
67	to	to	PART	_	68 request	mark
68	request	request	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	58 make	conj
69	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	71 patronage	nmod:poss
70	continued	continue	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	71 patronage	amod
71	patronage	patronage	NOUN	Number=Sing	68 request	obj
72	and	and	CCONJ	_	73 assistance	cc
73	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	71 patronage	conj
74	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the young man						vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	drive	gerund · perfect · passive	boy's proud hearted brother			boy's home			vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent from home=Trajectory
3	engage	past · passive		boy			now		vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
4	earn	gerund		boy's livelihood					vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent livelihood=Theme
5	chop	gerund		wood		that hill			vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent wood=Patient upon hill=Location
6	think speech: other	gerund	that						vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	is a	must	the Lion	the guardian deity				of the mountain	tree rules
8	consider	past · perfect	Lion	wood					vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute
9	make	to-infinitive	Lion not said here	some sort of a offering	boy			right property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset he=Beneficiary sort=Product
10	request	to-infinitive	Lion not said here	boy's continued patronage and assistance					vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent patronage=Recipient
11	continue	participle							vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
12	sort			a offering					nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient
13	patronage		boy						nom patronage «act transitive»: poss=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 20

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 20