Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 27
He was a good deal cast down at first, but being naturally a volatile, light-hearted fellow he soon recovered his spirits and marched along the road singing blithely, and keeping a sharp look-out for anything that might turn up.
Who acts: Lama, road · What happens: be, cast down, recover, march, sing, keep · To what, where: good deal, volatile, spirits, road, sharp look out
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, road), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 deal | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 deal | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 deal | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 deal | amod |
| 5 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 deal | acl |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 cast | compound:prt |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 first | case |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 cast | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 volatile | punct |
| 11 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 volatile | cc |
| 12 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 volatile | cop |
| 13 | naturally | naturally | ADV | _ | 15 volatile | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 volatile | det |
| 15 | volatile | volatile | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 deal | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 fellow | punct |
| 17 | light | light | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 fellow | compound |
| 18 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 light | punct |
| 19 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 fellow | amod |
| 20 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 volatile | appos |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 recovered | nsubj |
| 22 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 recovered | advmod |
| 23 | recovered | recover | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 fellow | acl:relcl |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 spirits | nmod:poss |
| 25 | spirits | spirit | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 recovered | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 marched | cc |
| 27 | marched | march | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 recovered | conj |
| 28 | along | along | ADP | _ | 30 road | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 road | det |
| 30 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 marched | obl |
| 31 | singing | sing | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 30 road | acl |
| 32 | blithely | blithely | ADV | _ | 31 singing | advmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 keeping | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 keeping | cc |
| 35 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 deal | advcl |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 out | det |
| 37 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 out | amod |
| 38 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 out | compound |
| 39 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 40 out | punct |
| 40 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 keeping | obj |
| 41 | for | for | ADP | _ | 42 anything | case |
| 42 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 40 out | nmod |
| 43 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 45 turn | nsubj |
| 44 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 turn | aux |
| 45 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 anything | acl:relcl |
| 46 | up | up | ADP | _ | 45 turn | compound:prt |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | Lama | a good deal but a volatile | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | cast down | participle | a good deal but a volatile not said here | vn throw-17.1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent at first=Destination | |||||
| 3 | is a | gerund | Lama not said here | a volatile | light hearted fellow appos; naturally property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | recover | past | Lama | Lama's spirits | soon property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spirit=Theme | |||
| 5 | march | participle | Lama not said here | the road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | sing speech: express | gerund | the road not said here | blithely property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | keep | gerund | Lama not said here | a sharp look out | for anything | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent out=Theme | |||
| 8 | turn up | might | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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