Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 56
And on hearing this the Thief at once retired, followed by the young girl, who was now completely convinced of his identity.
Who acts: young girl · What happens: hear, follow, be · To what, where: this, retired
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 (young girl), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 hearing | cc |
| 2 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 3 hearing | mark |
| 3 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 hearing | obj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Thief | det |
| 6 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hearing | obj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 retired | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 retired | advmod |
| 9 | retired | retired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 hearing | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 followed | punct |
| 11 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 retired | advcl |
| 12 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 girl | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 girl | det |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 15 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 followed | obl:agent |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 convinced | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 convinced | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 convinced | cop |
| 19 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 convinced | advmod |
| 20 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 21 convinced | advmod |
| 21 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 girl | amod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 identity | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 identity | nmod:poss |
| 24 | identity | identity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 convinced | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hearing | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this | retired | the Thief obj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | follow | participle | the young girl obl:agent | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the young girl | now | of thief's identity; completely, convinced property | tree rules |
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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