Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 57

Every day, for many days after, she returned to her husband, bringing him such provisions as he required to keep him alive; but as she had now no one to work for her, and was obliged to support her husband and her child entirely by her own exertions, she became gradually poorer and poorer, and was soon obliged to sell her household goods to procure the necessary food.

Who acts: woman, husband · What happens: return, bring, require, keep, have, work · To what, where: such provisions, husband, one, household goods, necessary food

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 (woman, 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	Every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	2 day	det
2	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl:unmarked
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 days	punct
4	for	for	ADP	_	6 days	case
5	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 days	amod
6	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	2 day	conj
7	after	after	ADV	_	6 days	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 day	punct
9	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 returned	nsubj
10	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
11	to	to	ADP	_	13 husband	case
12	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 husband	nmod:poss
13	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 returned	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 bringing	punct
15	bringing	bring	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	10 returned	advcl
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 bringing	obj
17	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 provisions	amod
18	provisions	provision	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 bringing	obj
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 required	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 required	nsubj
21	required	require	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 bringing	advcl
22	to	to	PART	_	23 keep	mark
23	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 required	xcomp
24	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 keep	obj
25	alive	alive	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 keep	xcomp
26	;	;	PUNCT	_	56 became	punct
27	but	but	CCONJ	_	56 became	cc
28	as	as	SCONJ	_	30 had	mark
29	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 had	nsubj
30	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 became	advcl
31	now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	33 one	advmod
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 one	det
33	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 had	obj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 work	mark
35	work	work	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 one	acl
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 work	obl
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	41 obliged	punct
39	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 obliged	cc
40	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 obliged	aux:pass
41	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 had	conj
42	to	to	PART	_	43 support	mark
43	support	support	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 obliged	xcomp
44	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	45 husband	nmod:poss
45	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 support	obj
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 child	cc
47	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	48 child	nmod:poss
48	child	child	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 husband	conj
49	entirely	entirely	ADV	_	43 support	advmod
50	by	by	ADP	_	53 exertions	case
51	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	53 exertions	nmod:poss
52	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	53 exertions	amod
53	exertions	exertion	NOUN	Number=Plur	43 support	obl
54	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 had	punct
55	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 became	nsubj
56	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 returned	conj
57	gradually	gradually	ADV	_	58 poorer	advmod
58	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	56 became	xcomp
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 poorer	cc
60	poorer	poor	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	58 poorer	conj
61	,	,	PUNCT	_	65 obliged	punct
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	65 obliged	cc
63	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	65 obliged	aux:pass
64	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	65 obliged	advmod
65	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	56 became	conj
66	to	to	PART	_	67 sell	mark
67	sell	sell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	65 obliged	xcomp
68	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	70 goods	nmod:poss
69	household	household	NOUN	Number=Sing	70 goods	compound
70	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	67 sell	obj
71	to	to	PART	_	72 procure	mark
72	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	67 sell	advcl
73	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	75 food	det
74	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	75 food	amod
75	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	72 procure	obj
76	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	woman			day	to woman's husband result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to husband=Result
2	bring	gerund	woman not said here	such provisions	husband			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination provision=Theme
3	require	past	husband					vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme clause=Precondition
4	keep	to-infinitive	husband not said here	husband			alive property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
5	have	past	woman	no one				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Patient
6	work	to-infinitive	woman not said here	no one not said here			for woman	vn employment-95.3 «NP V PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for she=Beneficiary
7	oblige	past · passive	woman not said here					vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
8	support	to-infinitive	woman not said here	woman's husband and woman's child			by woman's own exertions; entirely property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer husband=Stimulus
9	become	past	woman				poor property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
10	oblige	past · passive	woman not said here				soon property	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
11	sell	to-infinitive	woman not said here	woman's household goods				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent goods=Theme
12	procure	to-infinitive	woman not said here	the necessary food				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
13	exert		woman					nom exertion «act 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 57

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 57