Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 38
Carrying this with him, and bringing also a couple of candles, he proceeded to the hillside, and following the directions he had received from his brother, he soon found himself face to face with the stone Lion.
Who acts: place · What happens: carry, bring, proceed, follow, receive, find · To what, where: this, couple, directions, 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 (place), 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 | Carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 33 found | advcl |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Carrying | obj |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 him | case |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Carrying | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 proceeded | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 proceeded | cc |
| 7 | bringing | bring | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 proceeded | advcl |
| 8 | also | also | ADV | _ | 10 couple | advmod |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 couple | det |
| 10 | couple | couple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 bringing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 candles | case |
| 12 | candles | candle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 couple | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 bringing | punct |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 proceeded | nsubj |
| 15 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 1 Carrying | conj |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 hillside | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 hillside | det |
| 18 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 proceeded | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 following | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 following | cc |
| 21 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 1 Carrying | conj |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 directions | det |
| 23 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 following | obj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 received | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 received | aux |
| 26 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 directions | acl:relcl |
| 27 | from | from | ADP | _ | 29 brother | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 brother | nmod:poss |
| 29 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 received | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Carrying | punct |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 found | nsubj |
| 32 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 33 found | advmod |
| 33 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 34 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 found | obj |
| 35 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 found | obj |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 face | case |
| 37 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 face | nmod |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 40 stone | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 40 stone | det |
| 40 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 face | nmod |
| 41 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 stone | appos |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | gerund | place not said here | this | with place | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Theme | |||
| 2 | bring | gerund | place not said here | a couple of candles | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | place | to the hillside | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | place not said here | the directions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | ||||
| 5 | receive | past · perfect | place | the directions not said here | from place's brother | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent direction=Theme from brother=Source | |||
| 6 | find | past | place | place | face obj; soon property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent himself=Theme face=Attribute |
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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