Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 36

Further, the Thief had learned that the old man had once had a son, who had run away from home many years before and had never been heard of again.

Who acts: Thief, old man, son · What happens: learn, have, run away, not hear · To what, where: son, home · Speech: someone speaks here

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, old man, son), 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	Further	further	ADV	_	6 learned	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Further	punct
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Thief	det
4	Thief	Thief	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 learned	nsubj
5	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 learned	aux
6	learned	learn	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	root	root
7	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 had	mark
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 man	det
9	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 man	amod
10	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 had	aux
12	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	13 had	advmod
13	had	have	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	6 learned	ccomp
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 son	det
15	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 run	punct
17	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 run	nsubj
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 run	aux
19	run	run	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	15 son	acl:relcl
20	away	away	ADV	_	19 run	advmod
21	from	from	ADP	_	22 home	case
22	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 run	obl
23	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 years	amod
24	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	13 had	obl:unmarked
25	before	before	ADV	_	13 had	advmod
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 heard	cc
27	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 heard	aux
28	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	30 heard	advmod
29	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	30 heard	aux:pass
30	heard	hear	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 learned	conj
31	of	of	ADP	_	32 again	case
32	again	again	ADV	_	30 heard	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 learned	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	learn	past · perfect	the Thief				further property	vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	have	past · perfect	the old man	a son		year	before, once property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent son=Patient
3	run away	past · perfect	a son		home		away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from home=Trajectory
4	not hear	past · perfect · passive	the Thief not said here					vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: of again=Stimulus

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 36

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 36