Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 5
Now the old Lama’s diet, in accordance with the tenets of his religion, was a very small one, and he refrained entirely from taking the life of any living creature.
Who acts: diet, Lama · What happens: be, refrain, take · To what, where: small one, life
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 (diet, Lama), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 diet | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Lama | det |
| 3 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Lama | amod |
| 4 | Lama | Lama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 diet | nmod:poss |
| 5 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 4 Lama | case |
| 6 | diet | diet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 one | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 accordance | punct |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 accordance | case |
| 9 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 diet | appos |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 tenets | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 tenets | det |
| 12 | tenets | tenet | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 accordance | nmod |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 religion | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 religion | nmod:poss |
| 15 | religion | religion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tenets | nmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 diet | punct |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | cop |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 one | det |
| 19 | very | very | ADV | _ | 20 small | advmod |
| 20 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 one | amod |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 refrained | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 refrained | cc |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 refrained | nsubj |
| 25 | refrained | refrain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 one | acl:relcl |
| 26 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 25 refrained | advmod |
| 27 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 28 taking | mark |
| 28 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 refrained | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 life | det |
| 30 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 taking | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 creature | case |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 34 creature | det |
| 33 | living | living | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 creature | amod |
| 34 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 life | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 one | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the old Lama's diet | a small one | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | refrain | past | Lama | a small one not said here | entirely property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | take | gerund | Lama not said here | the life of any living creature | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=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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