Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 31
They purchased a large farm-house in the neighbourhood, and a large stock of cattle and sheep, and settled down in their new abode, and henceforward they began to live in a very comfortable and prosperous manner.
Who acts: widow · What happens: purchase, settle down, begin, live, stock · To what, where: large farm house, neighbourhood, new abode, comfortable manner, cattle
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 (widow), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 purchased | nsubj |
| 2 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 4 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 house | amod |
| 5 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 farm | punct |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purchased | obj |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 neighbourhood | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 neighbourhood | det |
| 10 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 house | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 stock | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 stock | cc |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 stock | det |
| 14 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 stock | amod |
| 15 | stock | stock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 purchased | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cattle | case |
| 17 | cattle | cattle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 stock | nmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sheep | cc |
| 19 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 cattle | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 settled | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 settled | cc |
| 22 | settled | settle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 purchased | conj |
| 23 | down | down | ADP | _ | 22 settled | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 abode | case |
| 25 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 abode | nmod:poss |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 abode | amod |
| 27 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 settled | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 began | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 began | cc |
| 30 | henceforward | henceforward | ADV | _ | 32 began | advmod |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 began | nsubj |
| 32 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 purchased | conj |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 live | mark |
| 34 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 began | xcomp |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 manner | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 41 manner | det |
| 37 | very | very | ADV | _ | 38 comfortable | advmod |
| 38 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 manner | amod |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 prosperous | cc |
| 40 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 38 comfortable | conj |
| 41 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 live | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 purchased | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | purchase | past | widow | a large farm house | the neighbourhood | a large stock of cattle and sheep parataxis | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=Theme | ||
| 2 | settle down | past | widow not said here | widow's new abode | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 3 | begin | past | widow | henceforward property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | live | to-infinitive | widow not said here | a comfortable manner | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in manner=Location | ||||
| 5 | stock | cattle and sheep | nom stock «possession transitive»: of=patient |
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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