Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 76
The sun was now very hot, and the Thief, carrying his heavy bag of gold, was getting pretty tired, and by the time he reached the place where the other boot was lying he was nearly worn out.
Who acts: sun, Thief, other boot · What happens: be, carry, get, reach, lie, wear out · To what, where: heavy bag, place, thief
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 (sun, Thief, other 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 sun | det |
| 2 | sun | sun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 hot | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hot | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 hot | advmod |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 hot | advmod |
| 6 | hot | hot | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 getting | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 getting | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Thief | det |
| 10 | Thief | thief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 getting | nsubj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 carrying | punct |
| 12 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Thief | acl |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 bag | nmod:poss |
| 14 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 bag | amod |
| 15 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 carrying | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 gold | case |
| 17 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 bag | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Thief | punct |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 getting | aux |
| 20 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 hot | conj |
| 21 | pretty | pretty | ADV | _ | 22 tired | advmod |
| 22 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 getting | xcomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 reached | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 reached | cc |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 time | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 time | det |
| 27 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reached | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 reached | nsubj |
| 29 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 hot | conj |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 place | det |
| 31 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 reached | obj |
| 32 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 lying | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 boot | det |
| 34 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 boot | amod |
| 35 | boot | boot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 lying | nsubj |
| 36 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 lying | aux |
| 37 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 place | parataxis |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 worn | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 worn | aux:pass |
| 40 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 41 worn | advmod |
| 41 | worn | wear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 lying | ccomp |
| 42 | out | out | ADP | _ | 41 worn | compound:prt |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 hot | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the sun | now | hot property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | carry | gerund | the Thief not said here | thief's heavy bag of gold | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | past · progressive | the Thief | tired property | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | reach | past | thief | the place | time | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent place=Theme | |||
| 5 | lie | past · progressive | the other boot | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | wear out | past · passive | thief | nearly property | vn wipe_manner-10.4.1-1 «NP V NP.source»: subject=Source |
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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