Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 18
The Lama accordingly took hold of the rope, and the Servant went down into the lower storey as if he intended to leave the house.
Who acts: Lama, Servant · What happens: take, go down, intend, leave, hold · To what, where: hold, lower storey, house, rope
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 (Lama, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Lama | det |
| 2 | Lama | lama | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | nsubj |
| 3 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 4 took | advmod |
| 4 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | hold | hold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 took | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 rope | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 rope | det |
| 8 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 hold | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Servant | det |
| 12 | Servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 took | conj |
| 14 | down | down | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 storey | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 storey | det |
| 17 | lower | low | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 storey | amod |
| 18 | storey | storey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 intended | mark |
| 20 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 intended | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 intended | nsubj |
| 22 | intended | intend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | advcl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 leave | mark |
| 24 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 intended | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 house | det |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 leave | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | the Lama | hold of the rope | accordingly property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hold=Theme | |||
| 2 | go down | past | the Servant | the lower storey | down property | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||
| 3 | intend | past | Servant | vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | leave not said to happen | to-infinitive | Servant not said here | the house | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme | ||||
| 5 | hold | the rope | nom hold «act transitive»: of=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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