Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 33
The Thief went forward alone to make enquiries, and he soon returned to Rin-dzin with the information he had gathered.
Who acts: Thief · What happens: go, make, return, gather · To what, where: enquiries, information
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 (Thief), 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 Thief | det |
| 2 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 make | mark |
| 7 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 went | advcl |
| 8 | enquiries | enquiry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 make | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 returned | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 returned | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 returned | nsubj |
| 12 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 13 returned | advmod |
| 13 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 dzin | case |
| 15 | Rin | Rin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 dzin | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 Rin | punct |
| 17 | dzin | dzin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 returned | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 information | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 information | det |
| 20 | information | information | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dzin | nmod |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 gathered | nsubj |
| 22 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 gathered | aux |
| 23 | gathered | gather | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 20 information | acl:relcl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | the Thief | alone, forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | the Thief not said here | enquiries | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset enquiry=Product | ||||
| 3 | return | past | thief | to Rin dzin with the information result; soon property | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to dzin=Result | ||||
| 4 | gather | past · perfect | thief | the information not said here | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent information=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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