Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 6
So his food consisted chiefly of barley-flour, butter, and so on, and he abstained from meat of any kind.
Who acts: food, Lama · What happens: consist, abstain · To what, where: chiefly, meat
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 (food, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 consisted | advmod |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 food | nmod:poss |
| 3 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consisted | nsubj |
| 4 | consisted | consist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | chiefly | chiefly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consisted | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 flour | case |
| 7 | barley | barley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 flour | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 barley | punct |
| 9 | flour | flour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chiefly | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 butter | punct |
| 11 | butter | butter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 chiefly | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 on | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 on | cc |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 on | advmod |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 4 consisted | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 abstained | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 abstained | cc |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 abstained | nsubj |
| 19 | abstained | abstain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 consisted | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 meat | case |
| 21 | meat | meat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 abstained | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 kind | case |
| 23 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 kind | det |
| 24 | kind | kind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meat | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consist | past | Lama's food | chiefly of barley flour and butter | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | abstain | past | Lama | meat of any kind | vn refrain-69 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent from meat=Eventuality |
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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