Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 28
He had not proceeded very far when he fell in with another young man going in the same direction as himself, and the two, joining company, fell into conversation.
Who acts: Lama, young man, two · What happens: not proceed, fall in, go, join, fall · To what, where: same direction, conversation
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, young man, two), 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 | 4 proceeded | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 proceeded | advmod |
| 4 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 proceeded | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 fell | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 fell | nsubj |
| 9 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 fell | advmod |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 man | case |
| 12 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 man | det |
| 13 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 fell | obl |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 man | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 direction | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 direction | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 direction | amod |
| 19 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 going | obl |
| 20 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 himself | case |
| 21 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 direction | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 fell | cc |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 two | det |
| 25 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 30 fell | nsubj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 company | punct |
| 27 | joining | join | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 28 company | amod |
| 28 | company | company | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 two | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 fell | punct |
| 30 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | conj |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 conversation | case |
| 32 | conversation | conversation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 fell | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not proceed | past · perfect | Lama | far property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | fall in | past | Lama | with another young man | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go | gerund | another young man not said here | the same direction as Lama | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in direction=Location | ||||
| 4 | join | gerund | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | fall | past | the two and joining company | into conversation result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into conversation=Result |
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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