Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 53
After hunting for some time she suddenly came across him, and asked him what he was doing and why he did not come home.
Who acts: wife, Lion · What happens: hunt, come, ask, do, not come · To what, where: Lion · 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 (wife, Lion), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 hunting | mark |
| 2 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 hunting | obl |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 7 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | across | across | ADP | _ | 10 him | case |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 asked | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 asked | cc |
| 13 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 14 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 asked | iobj |
| 15 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 18 doing | obj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 doing | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 doing | aux |
| 18 | doing | do | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 asked | ccomp |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 come | cc |
| 20 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 come | advmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 come | nsubj |
| 22 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 come | aux |
| 23 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 24 come | advmod |
| 24 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 asked | conj |
| 25 | home | home | ADV | _ | 24 come | advmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | gerund | wife not said here | time | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | past | wife | across Lion; suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across he=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | Lion | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | do | past · progressive | Lion | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | not come | past · do-support | Lion | home property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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