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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 35

His only relation was his daughter, who was heiress to the whole of the property, and she was now mourning for her father all alone in the big house.

Who acts: only relation, daughter, owner · What happens: be, mourn · To what, where: daughter, heiress, big house

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 (only relation, daughter, owner), 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

nmod:possamodnsubjcopnmod:posspunctnsubjcopapposcasedetnmodcasedetoblpunctccnsubjauxadvmodaclcasenmod:possobladvmodadvmodcasedetamodoblpunctrootHisPRONonlyADJrelationNOUNwasAUXhisPRONdaughterNOUN,PUNCTwhoPRONwasAUXheiressNOUNtoADPtheDETwholeADJofADPtheDETpropertyNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJshePRONwasAUXnowADVmourningVERBforADPherPRONfatherNOUNallADValoneADVinADPtheDETbigADJhouseNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1HishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs3 relationnmod:poss
2onlyonlyADJDegree=Pos3 relationamod
3relationrelationNOUNNumber=Sing6 daughternsubj
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 daughtercop
5hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs6 daughternmod:poss
6daughterdaughterNOUNNumber=Singrootroot
7,,PUNCT_10 heiresspunct
8whowhoPRONPronType=Rel10 heiressnsubj
9wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin10 heiresscop
10heiressheiressNOUNNumber=Sing6 daughterappos
11totoADP_13 wholecase
12thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art13 wholedet
13wholewholeADJDegree=Pos10 heiressnmod
14ofofADP_16 propertycase
15thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art16 propertydet
16propertypropertyNOUNNumber=Sing13 wholeobl
17,,PUNCT_22 mourningpunct
18andandCCONJ_22 mourningcc
19sheshePRONCase=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 mourningnsubj
20wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin22 mourningaux
21nownowADVPronType=Dem22 mourningadvmod
22mourningmournVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part6 daughteracl
23forforADP_25 fathercase
24herherPRONCase=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs25 fathernmod:poss
25fatherfatherNOUNNumber=Sing22 mourningobl
26allallADV_27 aloneadvmod
27alonealoneADV_25 fatheradvmod
28ininADP_31 housecase
29thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art31 housedet
30bigbigADJDegree=Pos31 houseamod
31househouseNOUNNumber=Sing22 mourningobl
32..PUNCT_6 daughterpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1is apastthief's only relationthief's daughterthief nmod:posstree rules
2is apastthief's daughterheiressto the whole of the propertytree rules
3mournpast · progressiveownerthief's daughter not said herethe big housenowfor owner's fathervn admire-31.2 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer daughter=Stimulus for father=Attribute

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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