Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 68
As soon as he was out of sight of the place where the Thief was sitting he pulled his horse up to a wall, and taking a new boot out of the bundle on his back, he dropped it in the middle of the road, and then pursued his way for some little distance further, when he took the fellow boot out of his bundle and dropped it also in the middle of the road.
Who acts: dzin, Thief · What happens: be, sit, pull up, take, drop, pursue · To what, where: sight, horse, wall, new boot, bundle, middle
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, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 40 dropped | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 sight | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sight | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sight | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dropped | advcl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 place | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 place | det |
| 11 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 sight | nmod |
| 12 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 sitting | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Thief | det |
| 14 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 sitting | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sitting | aux |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 place | acl:relcl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 pulled | nsubj |
| 18 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 sitting | ccomp |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pulled | obj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 18 pulled | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 wall | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 wall | det |
| 24 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 pulled | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 taking | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 taking | cc |
| 27 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 sitting | conj |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 boot | det |
| 29 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 boot | amod |
| 30 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taking | obj |
| 31 | out | out | ADP | _ | 34 bundle | case |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 bundle | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 bundle | det |
| 34 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taking | obl |
| 35 | on | on | ADP | _ | 37 back | case |
| 36 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 back | nmod:poss |
| 37 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 taking | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 sight | punct |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 dropped | nsubj |
| 40 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 41 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 dropped | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 44 middle | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 middle | det |
| 44 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 dropped | obl |
| 45 | of | of | ADP | _ | 47 road | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 road | det |
| 47 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 middle | nmod |
| 48 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 51 pursued | punct |
| 49 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 pursued | cc |
| 50 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 51 pursued | advmod |
| 51 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 dropped | conj |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 way | nmod:poss |
| 53 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 pursued | obj |
| 54 | for | for | ADP | _ | 57 distance | case |
| 55 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 57 distance | det |
| 56 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 57 distance | amod |
| 57 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 pursued | obl |
| 58 | further | further | ADV | _ | 51 pursued | advmod |
| 59 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 62 took | punct |
| 60 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 62 took | advmod |
| 61 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 62 took | nsubj |
| 62 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 dropped | parataxis |
| 63 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 65 boot | det |
| 64 | fellow | fellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 65 boot | amod |
| 65 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 took | obj |
| 66 | out | out | ADP | _ | 69 bundle | case |
| 67 | of | of | ADP | _ | 69 bundle | case |
| 68 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 69 bundle | nmod:poss |
| 69 | bundle | bundle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 62 took | obl |
| 70 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 71 dropped | cc |
| 71 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 62 took | conj |
| 72 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 71 dropped | obj |
| 73 | also | also | ADV | _ | 71 dropped | advmod |
| 74 | in | in | ADP | _ | 76 middle | case |
| 75 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 76 middle | det |
| 76 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 71 dropped | obl |
| 77 | of | of | ADP | _ | 79 road | case |
| 78 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 79 road | det |
| 79 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 76 middle | nmod |
| 80 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 40 dropped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | dzin | sight | of the place | tree rules | |||
| 2 | sit | past · progressive | the Thief | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | pull up | past | dzin | dzin's horse | a wall | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent horse=Theme to wall=Destination | |||
| 4 | take | gerund | the Thief not said here | a new boot | the bundle | on dzin's back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent boot=Theme on back=Destination | ||
| 5 | drop | past | dzin | horse | the middle of the road | soon property | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in middle=Destination | ||
| 6 | pursue | past | dzin not said here | dzin's way | then | for some little distance; further property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||
| 7 | take | past | dzin | the fellow boot | dzin's bundle | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent boot=Theme out bundle=Initial_Location | |||
| 8 | drop | past | dzin not said here | horse | the middle of the road | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in middle=Destination |
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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