Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 70
As soon as Rin-dzin had galloped out of sight, the Thief congratulated himself at not having been seen, took up his bag of gold and continued his journey.
Who acts: Thief · What happens: gallop, congratulate, not see, take up, continue, journey · To what, where: Rin dzin, sight, thief, bag, journey
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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 congratulated | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 galloped | mark |
| 4 | Rin | Rin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 dzin | compound |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 Rin | punct |
| 6 | dzin | dzin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 galloped | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 galloped | aux |
| 8 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 soon | advcl |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 sight | case |
| 11 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 galloped | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 soon | punct |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Thief | det |
| 14 | Thief | Thief | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 congratulated | nsubj |
| 15 | congratulated | congratulate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 15 congratulated | obj |
| 17 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 21 seen | mark |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 21 seen | advmod |
| 19 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 seen | aux |
| 20 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 seen | aux:pass |
| 21 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 congratulated | advcl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 took | punct |
| 23 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 congratulated | parataxis |
| 24 | up | up | ADP | _ | 23 took | compound:prt |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 bag | nmod:poss |
| 26 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 took | obj |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 gold | case |
| 28 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 bag | nmod |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 continued | cc |
| 30 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 took | conj |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 journey | nmod:poss |
| 32 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 continued | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 congratulated | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | gallop | past · perfect · passive | Rin dzin | sight | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme out sight=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | congratulate | past | the Thief | thief | soon property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Theme | |||
| 3 | not see | gerund · perfect · passive | the Thief not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V» | |||||
| 4 | take up | past | thief's bag of gold | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | |||||
| 5 | continue | past | thief's journey | vn sustain-55.6 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||||
| 6 | journey | thief | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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