Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 60
He then bade her farewell and started off with his booty as fast as he could, leaving Rin-dzin behind him in the same room as the corpse.
Who acts: thief · What happens: bade, start off, leave · To what, where: girl, Rin dzin, same room
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 (thief), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 bade | advmod |
| 3 | bade | bade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 bade | obj |
| 5 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 3 bade | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 started | cc |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 bade | conj |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 started | compound:prt |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 booty | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 booty | nmod:poss |
| 11 | booty | booty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 fast | advmod |
| 13 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 started | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 could | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 could | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 fast | advcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 leaving | punct |
| 18 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 started | advcl |
| 19 | Rin | Rin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 dzin | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 Rin | punct |
| 21 | dzin | dzin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leaving | obj |
| 22 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 leaving | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 room | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 room | det |
| 26 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 room | amod |
| 27 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 leaving | obl |
| 28 | as | as | ADP | _ | 30 corpse | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 corpse | det |
| 30 | corpse | corpse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 room | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bade | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bade | past | thief | girl | then | farewell property | tree rules | ||
| 2 | start off | past | thief not said here | with thief's booty; fast property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V PP.subeventuality»: agent=Eventuality with booty=Subeventuality | ||||
| 3 | leave | gerund | thief not said here | Rin dzin | the same room as the corpse | behind thief | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent dzin=Theme behind he=Location |
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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