Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 9
So next day the mother and her younger son left the house and set off together to seek some means of livelihood on their own account.
Who acts: mother, some, brothers · What happens: leave, set off, seek, mean, account · To what, where: house
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 (mother, some, brothers), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 10 left | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 day | amod |
| 3 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 mother | det |
| 5 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 son | cc |
| 7 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 son | nmod:poss |
| 8 | younger | young | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 son | amod |
| 9 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 mother | conj |
| 10 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 left | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 left | conj |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | together | together | ADV | _ | 14 set | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 seek | mark |
| 18 | seek | seek | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 set | advcl |
| 19 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 20 means | nsubj |
| 20 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 seek | ccomp |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 livelihood | case |
| 22 | livelihood | livelihood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 means | obl |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 account | case |
| 24 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 account | nmod:poss |
| 25 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 account | amod |
| 26 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 livelihood | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 left | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | leave | past | the mother and mother's younger son | the house | day | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | |||
| 2 | set off | past | the mother and mother's younger son not said here | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | seek | to-infinitive | the mother and mother's younger son not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | mean | present | some | of livelihood on brothers's own account | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | account | brothers = brother | nom account «communication 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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