Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 52

The girl agreed to this, and the two went together into the chamber where the old man’s corpse was sitting trussed-up for burial, in accordance with the Tibetan custom.

Who acts: girl, two, corpse · What happens: agree, go together, sit, truss up · To what, where: chamber, accordance

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 (girl, two, corpse), 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 girl	det
2	girl	girl	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 agreed	nsubj
3	agreed	agree	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 this	case
5	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 agreed	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 went	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	10 went	cc
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 two	det
9	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	10 went	nsubj
10	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 agreed	conj
11	together	together	ADV	_	10 went	advmod
12	into	into	ADP	_	14 chamber	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 chamber	det
14	chamber	chamber	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 went	obl
15	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 sitting	advmod
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 man	det
17	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 man	amod
18	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 corpse	nmod:poss
19	’s	's	PART	_	18 man	case
20	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 sitting	aux
22	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	14 chamber	acl
23	trussed	truss	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	22 sitting	xcomp
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	25 up	punct
25	up	up	ADP	_	23 trussed	compound:prt
26	for	for	ADP	_	27 burial	case
27	burial	burial	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 accordance	punct
29	in	in	ADP	_	30 accordance	case
30	accordance	accordance	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 sitting	obl
31	with	with	ADP	_	34 custom	case
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 custom	det
33	Tibetan	Tibetan	PROPN	Number=Sing	34 custom	compound
34	custom	custom	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 accordance	nmod
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 agreed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	agree speech: agree	past	the girl		to this	vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
2	go together	past	the two	the chamber	together property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into chamber=Initial_Location
3	sit	past · progressive	the old man's corpse	accordance with the Tibetan custom	for burial	tree rules
4	truss up	participle	the old man's corpse not said here			vn tape-22.4 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 52

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 52