Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 37
So next day the husband proceeded to the town, and after a prolonged search purchased the largest bucket which was to be had in the whole place.
Who acts: husband, prolonged search · What happens: proceed, prolong, purchase, have · To what, where: largest bucket, whole place
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 (husband, prolonged search), 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 | _ | 6 proceeded | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proceeded | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 husband | det |
| 5 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proceeded | nsubj |
| 6 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 town | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 town | det |
| 9 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proceeded | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 purchased | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 purchased | cc |
| 12 | after | after | ADP | _ | 15 search | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 search | det |
| 14 | prolonged | prolong | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 search | amod |
| 15 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 purchased | nsubj |
| 16 | purchased | purchase | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 proceeded | conj |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bucket | det |
| 18 | largest | large | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 bucket | amod |
| 19 | bucket | bucket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 purchased | obj |
| 20 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 had | obj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 had | aux |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 had | mark |
| 23 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 had | aux:pass |
| 24 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bucket | acl:relcl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 place | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 place | det |
| 27 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 place | amod |
| 28 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 had | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | the husband | day | to the town | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | prolong | participle | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | purchase | past | a prolonged search | the largest bucket | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bucket=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | past · passive | a prolonged search not said here | the largest bucket | the whole place | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: which=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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