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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 39

He at once lighted his candles and placed them one on each side of the Lion, while he prostrated himself upon the ground, and prayed to the Lion for good fortune.

Who acts: place · What happens: light, place, prostrate, pray · To what, where: candles, 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

nsubjmarkadvmodnmod:possobjccconjobjobjcasedetnmodcasedetnmodpunctmarknsubjparataxisobjcasedetoblpunctccconjcasedetoblcaseamodoblpunctrootHePRONatSCONJonceADVlightedVERBhisPRONcandlesNOUNandCCONJplacedVERBthemPRONoneNUMonADPeachDETsideNOUNofADPtheDETLionPROPN,PUNCTwhileSCONJhePRONprostratedVERBhimselfPRONuponADPtheDETgroundNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJprayedVERBtoADPtheDETLionPROPNforADPgoodADJfortuneNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 lightednsubj
2atatSCONJ_4 lightedmark
3onceonceADVNumForm=Word NumType=Mult4 lightedadvmod
4lightedlightVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 candlesnmod:poss
6candlescandleNOUNNumber=Plur4 lightedobj
7andandCCONJ_8 placedcc
8placedplaceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 lightedconj
9themtheyPRONCase=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs8 placedobj
10oneoneNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card8 placedobj
11ononADP_13 sidecase
12eacheachDETPronType=Tot13 sidedet
13sidesideNOUNNumber=Sing10 onenmod
14ofofADP_16 Lioncase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 Liondet
16LionLionPROPNNumber=Sing13 sidenmod
17,,PUNCT_20 prostratedpunct
18whilewhileSCONJ_20 prostratedmark
19hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs20 prostratednsubj
20prostratedprostrateVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin8 placedparataxis
21himselfhimselfPRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes20 prostratedobj
22uponuponADP_24 groundcase
23thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art24 grounddet
24groundgroundNOUNNumber=Sing20 prostratedobl
25,,PUNCT_27 prayedpunct
26andandCCONJ_27 prayedcc
27prayedprayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin20 prostratedconj
28totoADP_30 Lioncase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art30 Liondet
30LionLionPROPNNumber=Sing27 prayedobl
31forforADP_33 fortunecase
32goodgoodADJDegree=Pos33 fortuneamod
33fortunefortuneNOUNNumber=Sing27 prayedobl
34..PUNCT_4 lightedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1lightparticipleplaceplace's candlesonce propertyvn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent candle=Product
2placepastplace not said herecandles = candleone objvn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Agent they=Theme one=Destination
3prostratepastplaceplaceupon the groundtree rules
4praypastplace not said hereto the Lion; for good fortunevn long-32.2 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Pivot for fortune=Theme

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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