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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 32

The news of the changed condition of life of his mother and younger brother soon reached the ears of the eldest son, and overcome with curiosity as to how this result had been brought about, he decided to call upon them, and to ascertain the cause of their prosperity.

Who acts: news · What happens: change, reach, overcome, bring about, decide, call · To what, where: ears, result, cause, life, prosperity · 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 (news), 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

detnsubjcasedetamodnmodcasenmodcasenmod:possnmodccamodconjadvmoddetobjcasedetamodnmodpunctccadvclcaseoblmarkfixedadvmoddetnsubj:passauxaux:passadvcladvmodpunctnsubjconjmarkxcompcaseoblpunctccmarkconjdetobjcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootTheDETnewsNOUNofADPtheDETchangedVERBconditionNOUNofADPlifeNOUNofADPhisPRONmotherNOUNandCCONJyoungerADJbrotherNOUNsoonADVreachedVERBtheDETearsNOUNofADPtheDETeldestADJsonNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJovercomeVERBwithADPcuriosityNOUNasSCONJtoADPhowADVthisDETresultNOUNhadAUXbeenAUXbroughtVERBaboutADV,PUNCThePRONdecidedVERBtoPARTcallVERBuponADPthemPRON,PUNCTandCCONJtoPARTascertainVERBtheDETcauseNOUNofADPtheirPRONprosperityNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ThetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art2 newsdet
2newsnewsNOUNNumber=Sing16 reachednsubj
3ofofADP_6 conditioncase
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 conditiondet
5changedchangeVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass6 conditionamod
6conditionconditionNOUNNumber=Sing2 newsnmod
7ofofADP_8 lifecase
8lifelifeNOUNNumber=Sing6 conditionnmod
9ofofADP_11 mothercase
10hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs11 mothernmod:poss
11mothermotherNOUNNumber=Sing8 lifenmod
12andandCCONJ_14 brothercc
13youngeryoungADJDegree=Cmp14 brotheramod
14brotherbrotherNOUNNumber=Sing6 conditionconj
15soonsoonADVDegree=Pos16 reachedadvmod
16reachedreachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
17thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art18 earsdet
18earsearNOUNNumber=Plur16 reachedobj
19ofofADP_22 soncase
20thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art22 sondet
21eldesteldADJDegree=Sup22 sonamod
22sonsonNOUNNumber=Sing18 earsnmod
23,,PUNCT_25 overcomepunct
24andandCCONJ_25 overcomecc
25overcomeovercomeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin39 decidedadvcl
26withwithADP_27 curiositycase
27curiositycuriosityNOUNNumber=Sing25 overcomeobl
28asasSCONJ_35 broughtmark
29totoADP_28 asfixed
30howhowADVPronType=Int35 broughtadvmod
31thisthisDETNumber=Sing PronType=Dem32 resultdet
32resultresultNOUNNumber=Sing35 broughtnsubj:pass
33hadhaveAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin35 broughtaux
34beenbeAUXTense=Past VerbForm=Part35 broughtaux:pass
35broughtbringVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass39 decidedadvcl
36aboutaboutADV_35 broughtadvmod
37,,PUNCT_35 broughtpunct
38hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs39 decidednsubj
39decideddecideVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 reachedconj
40totoPART_41 callmark
41callcallVERBVerbForm=Inf39 decidedxcomp
42uponuponADP_43 themcase
43themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs41 callobl
44,,PUNCT_47 ascertainpunct
45andandCCONJ_47 ascertaincc
46totoPART_47 ascertainmark
47ascertainascertainVERBVerbForm=Inf41 callconj
48thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art49 causedet
49causecauseNOUNNumber=Sing47 ascertainobj
50ofofADP_52 prosperitycase
51theirtheirPRONCase=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs52 prosperitynmod:poss
52prosperityprosperityNOUNNumber=Sing49 causenmod
53..PUNCT_16 reachedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1changeparticiplevn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2reachpastthe news of the changed condition of life of news's mother and younger brotherthe ears of the eldest sonsoon propertyvn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent ear=Theme
3overcomepresentnews not said herewith curiosityvn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
4bring aboutpast · perfect · passivethis resultabout propertyvn engender-27.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient
5decidepastnewsvn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
6call not said to happento-infinitivenews not said hereupon widowvn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7ascertainto-infinitivenews not said herethe cause of widow's prosperityvn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cause=Topic
8conditionlife of news's mothernom condition «state transitive»: of=patient
9causewidow's prosperitynom cause «event 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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