Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 52
Towards evening the elder brother’s wife grew anxious concerning her husband’s absence, and knowing the direction in which he had gone, she set forth to the hillside to seek him.
Who acts: wife, Lion, husband · What happens: grow, concern, know, go, set, seek · To what, where: absence, direction, Lion
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 (wife, Lion, husband), 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 brother | det |
| 4 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 brother | amod |
| 5 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wife | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 brother | case |
| 7 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | xcomp |
| 10 | concerning | concern | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 grew | advcl |
| 11 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 husband | nmod:poss |
| 12 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 absence | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 husband | case |
| 14 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 concerning | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 set | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 set | cc |
| 17 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 27 set | advcl |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 direction | det |
| 19 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 knowing | obj |
| 20 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 which | case |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 24 gone | obl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 gone | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 gone | aux |
| 24 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 direction | acl:relcl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 knowing | punct |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 set | nsubj |
| 27 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | conj |
| 28 | forth | forth | ADV | _ | 27 set | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 hillside | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 hillside | det |
| 31 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 set | obl |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 seek | mark |
| 33 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 set | advcl |
| 34 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 seek | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the elder brother's wife | evening | anxious property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | concern | gerund | the elder brother's wife not said here | wife's husband's absence | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus absence=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | know | gerund | wife not said here | the direction | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer direction=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | go | past · perfect | Lion | the direction | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in which=Location | ||||
| 5 | set | past | wife | to the hillside; forth property | vn other_cos-45.4-1 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 6 | seek | to-infinitive | wife not said here | Lion | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | absent | wife's husband | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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