Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 32
So they went along together and towards evening they came upon a large house standing in a fertile valley.
Who acts: two, large house · What happens: go along, come, stand · To what, where: large house, fertile valley
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 (two, large house), 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 went | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | together | together | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 came | cc |
| 7 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 8 evening | case |
| 8 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 9 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 came | nsubj |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 11 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 13 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 house | amod |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 14 house | acl |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 valley | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 valley | det |
| 18 | fertile | fertile | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 valley | amod |
| 19 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 standing | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | two | along, together property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | come | past | two | a large house | evening | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon house=Location | |||
| 3 | stand | gerund | a large house not said here | a fertile valley | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in valley=Location |
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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