Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 71
After walking some little way, he came upon a new boot lying in the centre of the road.
Who acts: thief, new boot · What happens: walk, come, lie · To what, where: little way, new boot, centre
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, new boot), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 walking | mark |
| 2 | walking | walk | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 way | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 way | amod |
| 5 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 walking | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 walking | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 boot | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 boot | det |
| 11 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 boot | amod |
| 12 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 boot | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 centre | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 centre | det |
| 16 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 lying | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 centre | nmod |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | walk | gerund | thief not said here | some little way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | thief | a new boot | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon boot=Location | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | a new boot not said here | the centre of the road | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in centre=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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