Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 58

Some months passed away and the poor woman, falling ill, was at length reduced to such complete destitution that she had not even a morsel of bread to bring to her husband, and one morning she came weeping up the hill, and addressed him as follows:

Who acts: months, woman · What happens: pass away, fall, be, reduce, have, bring · To what, where: length, such complete destitution, morsel, husband, hill

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 (months, 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	Some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	2 months	det
2	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 passed	nsubj
3	passed	pass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	away	away	ADV	_	3 passed	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 woman	cc
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 woman	det
7	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 woman	amod
8	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	conj
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 falling	punct
10	falling	fall	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 passed	advcl
11	ill	ill	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 falling	xcomp
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 length	punct
13	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 length	cop
14	at	at	ADP	_	15 length	case
15	length	length	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 passed	parataxis
16	reduced	reduce	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	15 length	acl
17	to	to	ADP	_	20 destitution	case
18	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 destitution	amod
19	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 destitution	amod
20	destitution	destitution	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 reduced	obl
21	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 had	mark
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 had	nsubj
23	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 reduced	advcl
24	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 morsel	advmod
25	even	even	ADV	_	27 morsel	advmod
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 morsel	det
27	morsel	morsel	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 had	obj
28	of	of	ADP	_	29 bread	case
29	bread	bread	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 morsel	nmod
30	to	to	PART	_	31 bring	mark
31	bring	bring	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 morsel	acl
32	to	to	ADP	_	34 husband	case
33	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 husband	nmod:poss
34	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 bring	obl
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 came	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 came	cc
37	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	38 morning	nummod
38	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 came	obl:unmarked
39	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 came	nsubj
40	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
41	weeping	weep	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	40 came	advcl
42	up	up	ADP	_	41 weeping	compound:prt
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 hill	det
44	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	41 weeping	obj
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 addressed	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 addressed	cc
47	addressed	address	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 passed	conj
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 addressed	obj
49	as	as	SCONJ	_	50 follows	mark
50	follows	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	47 addressed	advcl
51	:	:	PUNCT	_	3 passed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	pass away	past	some months					the poor woman conj; away property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	fall	gerund	some months not said here					ill property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	past				length			tree rules
4	reduce	participle		length not said here				to such complete destitution goal	vn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer to destitution=Goal
5	have	past	woman	a morsel of bread					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent morsel=Patient
6	bring	to-infinitive	woman not said here	a morsel of bread not said here	woman's husband				vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to husband=Destination
7	come	past	woman				morning		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	weep up	gerund	woman not said here	the hill					vn breathe-40.1.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent hill=Theme
9	address	past	some months not said here		husband				vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Destination
10	follow	present	some months not said here						vn occur-48.3-1 «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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 58

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 58