Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 21

After the lapse of an hour or two the Servant returned to the Lama in the upper room and informed him that the sheep had died a natural death while he had been away seeking for its owner, and, in the circumstances, he supposed that they might as well cut it up and cook it for food.

Who acts: Servant, sheep, Lama, hour · What happens: return, inform, die, seek, suppose, cut up · To what, where: upper room, Lama, natural death, circumstances, room · Speech: someone speaks here

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, sheep, Lama, hour), 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	After	after	ADP	_	3 lapse	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 lapse	det
3	lapse	lapse	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 returned	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 hour	case
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 hour	det
6	hour	hour	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 lapse	nmod
7	or	or	CCONJ	_	8 two	cc
8	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	6 hour	conj
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Servant	det
10	Servant	Servant	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 returned	nsubj
11	returned	return	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	to	to	ADP	_	14 Lama	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 Lama	det
14	Lama	Lama	PROPN	Number=Sing	11 returned	obl
15	in	in	ADP	_	18 room	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 room	det
17	upper	upper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 room	amod
18	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 returned	obl
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 informed	cc
20	informed	inform	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 returned	conj
21	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 informed	iobj
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	26 died	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 sheep	det
24	sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	26 died	nsubj
25	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 died	aux
26	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 informed	ccomp
27	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 death	det
28	natural	natural	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 death	amod
29	death	death	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 died	obl
30	while	while	SCONJ	_	35 seeking	mark
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	35 seeking	nsubj
32	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	35 seeking	aux
33	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	35 seeking	aux
34	away	away	ADV	_	35 seeking	advmod
35	seeking	seek	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	26 died	advcl
36	for	for	ADP	_	38 owner	case
37	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 owner	nmod:poss
38	owner	owner	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 seeking	obl
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 supposed	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 supposed	cc
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 and	punct
42	in	in	ADP	_	44 circumstances	case
43	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	44 circumstances	det
44	circumstances	circumstance	NOUN	Number=Plur	47 supposed	obl
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	44 circumstances	punct
46	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	47 supposed	nsubj
47	supposed	suppose	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	11 returned	conj
48	that	that	SCONJ	_	53 cut	mark
49	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 cut	nsubj
50	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	53 cut	aux
51	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	53 cut	cc
52	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	51 as	fixed
53	cut	cut	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	47 supposed	xcomp
54	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 cut	obj
55	up	up	ADP	_	53 cut	compound:prt
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 cook	cc
57	cook	cook	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 cut	conj
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	57 cook	obj
59	for	for	ADP	_	60 food	case
60	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 cook	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 returned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	return	past	the Servant			the upper room	after the lapse of a hour	to the Lama result	vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to lama=Result
2	inform speech: other	past	the Servant not said here		Lama				vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
3	die	past · perfect	the sheep	a natural death					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	seek	past · perfect · progressive	Lama					for room's owner; away property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for owner=Theme
5	suppose	past	Lama			the circumstances			vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme
6	cut up	might	sheep	room					vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset it=Product
7	cook	infinitive	sheep not said here	room				for food	vn build-26.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent it=Material for food=Beneficiary
8	lapse		a hour						nom lapse «act intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 21

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 21