Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 66

Here the proud brother and his wife settled down in very humble circumstances, whilst the younger son lived for many years very happily with his mother and prospered exceedingly in all he undertook.

Who acts: proud brother, younger son, Lion · What happens: settle down, live, prosper, undertake · To what, where: humble circumstances, all

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 (proud brother, younger son, 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	Here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	8 settled	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 brother	det
3	proud	proud	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 brother	amod
4	brother	brother	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 settled	nsubj
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 wife	cc
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 wife	nmod:poss
7	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 brother	conj
8	settled	settle	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	down	down	ADP	_	8 settled	compound:prt
10	in	in	ADP	_	13 circumstances	case
11	very	very	ADV	_	12 humble	advmod
12	humble	humble	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 circumstances	amod
13	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 settled	obl
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 lived	punct
15	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	19 lived	mark
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 son	det
17	younger	young	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	18 son	amod
18	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	nsubj
19	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 settled	conj
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 years	case
21	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 years	amod
22	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 lived	obl
23	very	very	ADV	_	24 happily	advmod
24	happily	happily	ADV	_	19 lived	advmod
25	with	with	ADP	_	27 mother	case
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 mother	nmod:poss
27	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 lived	obl
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 prospered	cc
29	prospered	prosper	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 settled	conj
30	exceedingly	exceedingly	ADV	_	29 prospered	advmod
31	in	in	ADP	_	32 all	case
32	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	29 prospered	obl
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 undertook	nsubj
34	undertook	undertake	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	32 all	acl:relcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 settled	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	when	other	roles by
1	settle down	past	the proud brother and Lion's wife	humble circumstances; here			vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient
2	live	past	the younger son		year	with Lion's mother; happily property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location
3	prosper	past	the proud brother and Lion's wife not said here	all		exceedingly property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in all=Location
4	undertake	past	Lion				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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 66

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 66