Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 10
So he pursued it and caught it, and carrying it into the ground floor of the house, he went up into the room above, and letting down a rope through a hole in the floor he hitched a slip-knot at the other end of the rope round the sheep’s neck.
Who acts: Servant · What happens: pursue, catch, carry, go up, let down, hitch · To what, where: life, ground floor, room, rope, slip knot, hole
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 (Servant), 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 | _ | 3 pursued | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pursued | nsubj |
| 3 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 pursued | obj |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 caught | cc |
| 6 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pursued | conj |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 caught | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 carrying | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 carrying | cc |
| 10 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 pursued | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 carrying | obj |
| 12 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 floor | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 floor | det |
| 14 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floor | compound |
| 15 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carrying | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 floor | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 went | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 went | nsubj |
| 21 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 pursued | conj |
| 22 | up | up | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 room | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 room | det |
| 25 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 went | obl |
| 26 | above | above | ADV | _ | 21 went | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 letting | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 letting | cc |
| 29 | letting | let | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 went | advcl |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 letting | compound:prt |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 rope | det |
| 32 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 letting | obj |
| 33 | through | through | ADP | _ | 35 hole | case |
| 34 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 hole | det |
| 35 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hitched | obl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 floor | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 floor | det |
| 38 | floor | floor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 hole | nmod |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 hitched | nsubj |
| 40 | hitched | hitch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 letting | parataxis |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 44 knot | det |
| 42 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 knot | compound |
| 43 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 42 slip | punct |
| 44 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hitched | obj |
| 45 | at | at | ADP | _ | 48 end | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 48 end | det |
| 47 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 end | amod |
| 48 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hitched | obl |
| 49 | of | of | ADP | _ | 51 rope | case |
| 50 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 51 rope | det |
| 51 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 end | nmod |
| 52 | round | round | ADP | _ | 56 neck | case |
| 53 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 54 sheep | det |
| 54 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 56 neck | nmod:poss |
| 55 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 54 sheep | case |
| 56 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 hitched | obl |
| 57 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 pursued | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pursue | past | Servant | life | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 2 | catch | past | Servant not said here | life | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | carry | gerund | Servant not said here | life | the ground floor of the house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 4 | go up | past | Servant | the room | above property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 5 | let down | gerund | Servant not said here | a rope | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | ||||
| 6 | hitch | past | Servant | a slip knot | a hole in the floor | at the other end of the rope | round the sheep's neck | vn tape-22.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent knot=Patient |
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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