Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 5

The poor boy was much grieved on hearing this decision from his brother; but he was quite unable to protest or dispute, so, having packed up his few belongings, he went to say good-bye to his mother, and told her what had occurred.

Who acts: boy · What happens: grieve, hear, be, protest, dispute, pack up · To what, where: poor boy, decision, few belongings, good bye, mother, her · 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 (boy), 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 boy	det
2	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 boy	amod
3	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 grieved	nsubj:pass
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 grieved	aux:pass
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 grieved	advmod
6	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	on	on	SCONJ	_	8 hearing	mark
8	hearing	hear	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 grieved	advcl
9	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	10 decision	det
10	decision	decision	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hearing	obj
11	from	from	ADP	_	13 brother	case
12	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 brother	nmod:poss
13	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 hearing	obl
14	;	;	PUNCT	_	19 unable	punct
15	but	but	CCONJ	_	19 unable	cc
16	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 unable	nsubj
17	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 unable	cop
18	quite	quite	ADV	_	19 unable	advmod
19	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 grieved	conj
20	to	to	PART	_	21 protest	mark
21	protest	protest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 unable	xcomp
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	23 dispute	cc
23	dispute	dispute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 protest	conj
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 packed	punct
25	so	so	ADV	_	28 packed	advmod
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 having	punct
27	having	have	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	28 packed	aux
28	packed	pack	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	19 unable	parataxis
29	up	up	ADP	_	28 packed	compound:prt
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 belongings	nmod:poss
31	few	few	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 belongings	amod
32	belongings	belonging	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 packed	obj
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	35 went	punct
34	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 went	nsubj
35	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 unable	parataxis
36	to	to	PART	_	37 say	mark
37	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	35 went	xcomp
38	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 bye	amod
39	-	-	PUNCT	_	38 good	punct
40	bye	bye	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 say	obj
41	to	to	ADP	_	43 mother	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 mother	nmod:poss
43	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 say	obl
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 told	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 told	cc
46	told	tell	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 went	conj
47	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 told	iobj
48	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	50 occurred	nsubj:pass
49	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 occurred	aux
50	occurred	occur	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	46 told	ccomp
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 grieved	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	grieve	past · passive		the poor boy			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Experiencer
2	hear	gerund		this decision		from boy's brother	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent decision=Topic from brother=Source
3	is	past	boy			unable property	tree rules
4	protest speech: disagree	to-infinitive	boy not said here				vn rebel-71.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	dispute	infinitive	boy not said here				vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	pack up	gerund · perfect		boy's few belongings			vn spray-9.7-1-1 «NP.theme V NP»: agent=Theme belonging=Destination
7	go	past	boy				vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	say speech: assert	to-infinitive	boy not said here	good bye	boy's mother		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent bye=Topic to mother=Recipient
9	tell speech: assert	past	boy not said here		her = she		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic
10	occur	past · perfect · passive				what nsubj:pass	tree rules

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 5

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 5