Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 56
The poor woman, on hearing this, wept and wailed, but all her entreaties to the Lion proved of no avail, and she went off to her home, and soon returned carrying her husband some food.
Who acts: poor woman, entreaties, woman · What happens: hear, weep, wail, prove, go off, return · To what, where: this, husband
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 (poor woman, entreaties, woman), 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 woman | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 woman | amod |
| 3 | woman | woman | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 wept | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 hearing | punct |
| 5 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 6 hearing | mark |
| 6 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 woman | conj |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 hearing | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 woman | punct |
| 9 | wept | weep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 wailed | cc |
| 11 | wailed | wail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wept | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 proved | punct |
| 13 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 proved | cc |
| 14 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 entreaties | det |
| 15 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 entreaties | nmod:poss |
| 16 | entreaties | entreaty | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 proved | nsubj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 Lion | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Lion | det |
| 19 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 entreaties | nmod |
| 20 | proved | prove | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wept | conj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 avail | case |
| 22 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 23 avail | det |
| 23 | avail | avail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 proved | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 went | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 went | cc |
| 26 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 went | nsubj |
| 27 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wept | conj |
| 28 | off | off | ADP | _ | 27 went | compound:prt |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 home | case |
| 30 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 home | nmod:poss |
| 31 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 went | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 returned | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 returned | cc |
| 34 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 returned | advmod |
| 35 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 wept | conj |
| 36 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 returned | xcomp |
| 37 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 husband | nmod:poss |
| 38 | husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 carrying | obj |
| 39 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 40 food | det |
| 40 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 carrying | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 wept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the poor woman not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | weep | past | the poor woman | vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | wail | past | the poor woman not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | prove | past | woman's entreaties to the Lion | of no avail | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go off | past | woman | to woman's home | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | return | past | the poor woman not said here | soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | carry | gerund | the poor woman not said here | woman's husband | some food obj | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Theme husband=Beneficiary food=Value |
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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