Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 33
So, accompanied by his wife, and carrying with him a very small piece of cloth as a present, he set out to pay them a visit.
Who acts: news · What happens: accompany, carry, set out, pay · To what, where: small piece, pieces
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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 accompanied | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 accompanied | punct |
| 3 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | by | by | ADP | _ | 6 wife | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 accompanied | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carrying | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 carrying | cc |
| 9 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 accompanied | advcl |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 him | case |
| 11 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 carrying | obl |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 piece | det |
| 13 | very | very | ADV | _ | 14 small | advmod |
| 14 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 piece | amod |
| 15 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carrying | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 cloth | case |
| 17 | cloth | cloth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 piece | nmod |
| 18 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 present | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 present | det |
| 20 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carrying | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 set | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 set | nsubj |
| 23 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 accompanied | conj |
| 24 | out | out | ADP | _ | 23 set | compound:prt |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 pay | mark |
| 26 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 set | xcomp |
| 27 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 pay | obj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 visit | det |
| 29 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 pay | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 accompanied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accompany | participle | by news's wife | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent by wife=Destination | |||||
| 2 | carry | gerund | a small piece of cloth | with news; as a present | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent piece=Theme | ||||
| 3 | set out | past | news | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | pay | to-infinitive | news not said here | pieces = piece | a visit obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent they=Recipient visit=Asset |
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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