Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 61
Early next morning Rin-dzin climbed down from the window, and coming round to the front of the house he asked the lady where her brother was.
Who acts: Rin dzin, dzin · What happens: climb down, come round, ask · To what, where: window, front, lady
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 (Rin dzin, dzin), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 climbed | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | Rin | Rin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dzin | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rin | punct |
| 6 | dzin | dzin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | nsubj |
| 7 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADV | _ | 7 climbed | advmod |
| 9 | from | from | ADP | _ | 11 window | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 window | det |
| 11 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 climbed | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 coming | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 coming | cc |
| 14 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 climbed | advcl |
| 15 | round | round | ADV | _ | 14 coming | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 front | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 front | det |
| 18 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 coming | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 house | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 house | det |
| 21 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 front | nmod |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 asked | nsubj |
| 23 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 coming | parataxis |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 lady | det |
| 25 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 asked | obj |
| 26 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 29 was | advmod |
| 27 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 brother | nmod:poss |
| 28 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 was | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 lady | acl:relcl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb down | past | Rin dzin | the window | morning | down, early property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from window=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | come round | gerund | Rin dzin not said here | the front of the house | round property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to front=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | dzin | the lady | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent lady=Recipient |
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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