Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 44

Rin-dzin agreed to this proposition, and climbed in by the window into the dead man’s room, and, concealing himself near the corpse, he awaited the arrival of his friend.

Who acts: Rin dzin, dzin, friend · What happens: agree, climb, conceal, await, arrive · To what, where: room, dzin, corpse, arrival

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 (Rin dzin, dzin, friend), 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	Rin	Rin	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 dzin	compound
2	-	-	PUNCT	_	1 Rin	punct
3	dzin	dzin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 agreed	nsubj
4	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	7 proposition	case
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	7 proposition	det
7	proposition	proposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 agreed	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 climbed	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 climbed	cc
10	climbed	climb	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 agreed	parataxis
11	in	in	ADV	_	10 climbed	advmod
12	by	by	ADP	_	14 window	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 window	det
14	window	window	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climbed	obl
15	into	into	ADP	_	20 room	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	dead	dead	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 room	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 man	case
20	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 climbed	obl
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 awaited	punct
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 awaited	cc
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 concealing	punct
24	concealing	conceal	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	31 awaited	ccomp
25	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	24 concealing	obj
26	near	near	ADP	_	28 corpse	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 corpse	det
28	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 concealing	obl
29	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 concealing	punct
30	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 awaited	nsubj
31	awaited	await	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 climbed	conj
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 arrival	det
33	arrival	arrival	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 awaited	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 friend	case
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 friend	nmod:poss
36	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 arrival	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	Rin dzin			to this proposition	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	climb	past			the dead man's room	by the window	vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into room=Destination
3	conceal	gerund	dzin not said here	dzin	the corpse		vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient near corpse=Location
4	await	past	dzin	the arrival of dzin's friend			tree rules
5	arrive		dzin's friend				nom arrival «act intransitive»: of=agent

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 44

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 44