Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 1

There was once an old Lama who lived in a small house at the very top of a hill in a lonely part of Tibet.

Who acts: old Lama · What happens: be, live · To what, where: small house

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old Lama), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Lama	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Lama	amod
6	Lama	lama	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	8 lived	nsubj
8	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Lama	acl:relcl
9	in	in	ADP	_	12 house	case
10	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 house	det
11	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 house	amod
12	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
13	at	at	ADP	_	16 top	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 top	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 top	advmod
16	top	top	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
17	of	of	ADP	_	19 hill	case
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	19 hill	det
19	hill	hill	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 top	nmod
20	in	in	ADP	_	23 part	case
21	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	23 part	det
22	lonely	lonely	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 part	amod
23	part	part	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 lived	obl
24	of	of	ADP	_	25 Tibet	case
25	Tibet	Tibet	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 part	nmod
26	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old Lama			there		once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	a old Lama			a small house		at the top of a hill; in a lonely part of Tibet	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=Location

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 Lama’s Servant., sentence 1

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 1