Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 34
When he reached the house his younger brother was away engaged upon his farm business, but the mother received her elder son and his wife very kindly and made them as comfortable as she could.
Who acts: news, mother · What happens: reach, engage, receive, make · To what, where: house, younger brother, elder son, brothers
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, mother), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 3 reached | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 reached | nsubj |
| 3 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 engaged | advcl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 reached | obj |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 8 brother | amod |
| 8 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 engaged | nsubj:pass |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 engaged | aux:pass |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 11 engaged | advmod |
| 11 | engaged | engage | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 15 business | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 business | nmod:poss |
| 14 | farm | farm | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 business | compound |
| 15 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 engaged | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 received | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 received | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 mother | det |
| 19 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 received | nsubj |
| 20 | received | receive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 engaged | parataxis |
| 21 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 son | nmod:poss |
| 22 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 son | amod |
| 23 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 received | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 wife | cc |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 wife | nmod:poss |
| 26 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 son | conj |
| 27 | very | very | ADV | _ | 28 kindly | advmod |
| 28 | kindly | kindly | ADV | _ | 20 received | advmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 made | cc |
| 30 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 received | conj |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 made | obj |
| 32 | as | as | ADV | _ | 33 comfortable | advmod |
| 33 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 made | xcomp |
| 34 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 36 could | mark |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 could | nsubj |
| 36 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 comfortable | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 engaged | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | past | news | the house | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 2 | engage | past · passive | news's younger brother | upon news's farm business; away property | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 3 | receive | past | the mother | mother's elder son and news's wife | kindly property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Theme | |||
| 4 | make | past | the mother not said here | brothers = brother | comfortable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset they=Product |
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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