Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 67

So, leaning down over his horse’s neck, he pretended not to see the Thief, and galloped past him down the road, as if in mad pursuit.

Who acts: dzin · What happens: lean down, pretend, not see, gallop down · To what, where: neck, Thief, road, mad pursuit

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 (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	So	so	ADV	_	12 pretended	advmod
2	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 So	punct
3	leaning	lean	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 pretended	advcl
4	down	down	ADV	_	3 leaning	advmod
5	over	over	ADP	_	9 neck	case
6	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 horse	nmod:poss
7	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 neck	nmod:poss
8	’s	's	PART	_	7 horse	case
9	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 leaning	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 leaning	punct
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 pretended	nsubj
12	pretended	pretend	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
13	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	15 see	advmod
14	to	to	PART	_	15 see	mark
15	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 pretended	xcomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Thief	det
17	Thief	thief	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 see	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 galloped	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 galloped	cc
20	galloped	gallop	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	12 pretended	conj
21	past	past	ADP	_	22 him	case
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 galloped	obl
23	down	down	ADP	_	20 galloped	compound:prt
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	25 road	det
25	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 galloped	obj
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 pursuit	punct
27	as	as	SCONJ	_	31 pursuit	mark
28	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 pursuit	mark
29	in	in	ADP	_	31 pursuit	case
30	mad	mad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 pursuit	amod
31	pursuit	pursuit	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 galloped	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	12 pretended	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	lean down	gerund	dzin not said here		dzin's horse's neck	down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent over neck=Location
2	pretend	past	dzin				tree rules
3	not see	to-infinitive	dzin not said here	the Thief			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer thief=Stimulus
4	gallop down	past	dzin not said here	the road	mad pursuit	past dzin	vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent road=Theme past he=Initial_Location in pursuit=Trajectory

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 67

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 67