Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 69
Having done this he turned aside from the roadway and concealed himself and his horse in a thicket near by.
Who acts: this · What happens: have, do, turn, conceal · To what, where: roadway, thief, thicket
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 (this), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 this | csubj |
| 2 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 turned | nsubj |
| 5 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | aside | aside | ADV | _ | 5 turned | advmod |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 9 roadway | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 roadway | det |
| 9 | roadway | roadway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 turned | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 concealed | cc |
| 11 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 turned | conj |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 concealed | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 horse | cc |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 horse | nmod:poss |
| 15 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 himself | conj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 thicket | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thicket | det |
| 18 | thicket | thicket | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 concealed | obl |
| 19 | near | near | ADV | _ | 11 concealed | advmod |
| 20 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 near | fixed |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | do | participle | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | turn | past | this | the roadway | thief nsubj; aside property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme from roadway=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | conceal | past | this not said here | thief | a thicket | near property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in thicket=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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