Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 36
The elder brother and his wife, as they returned home together that evening, talked the matter over between them, and decided that so good an opportunity of making money so easily was not to be lost.
Who acts: brothers, elder brother, good opportunity · What happens: return, talk over, decide, make, not lose · To what, where: elder brother, matter, that, money, good opportunity · 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 (brothers, elder brother, good opportunity), 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 brother | det |
| 2 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 brother | amod |
| 3 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 talked | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 wife | cc |
| 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 brother | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 returned | punct |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 returned | mark |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 returned | nsubj |
| 10 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 brother | acl:relcl |
| 11 | home | home | ADV | _ | 10 returned | advmod |
| 12 | together | together | ADV | _ | 10 returned | advmod |
| 13 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 evening | det |
| 14 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 returned | obl:unmarked |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 brother | punct |
| 16 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 matter | det |
| 18 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 talked | obj |
| 19 | over | over | ADV | _ | 16 talked | advmod |
| 20 | between | between | ADP | _ | 21 them | case |
| 21 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 talked | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 decided | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 decided | cc |
| 24 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 talked | conj |
| 25 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 decided | obj |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 good | advmod |
| 27 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 opportunity | amod |
| 28 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 opportunity | det |
| 29 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 lost | nsubj:pass |
| 30 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 31 making | mark |
| 31 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 opportunity | acl |
| 32 | money | money | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 making | obj |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 easily | advmod |
| 34 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 31 making | advmod |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 lost | aux:pass |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 39 lost | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 lost | mark |
| 38 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 39 lost | aux:pass |
| 39 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 decided | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 talked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | past | brothers = brother | the elder brother and news's wife not said here | evening | home, together property | vn send-11.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent brother=Theme | ||
| 2 | talk over | past | the elder brother and news's wife | the matter | between pieces = piece; over property | vn compel-59.1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent matter=Patient | |||
| 3 | decide | past | the elder brother and news's wife not said here | that | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent that=Co-Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | a good opportunity not said here | money | easily property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset money=Product | |||
| 5 | not lose not said to happen | past · passive | a good opportunity | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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