Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 81
No sooner was he out of sight than Rin-dzin emerged from his hiding-place, and picking up the bag of gold, strapped it to his saddle and rode on his way.
Who acts: thief, sight · What happens: be, emerge, pick up, strap · To what, where: sight, Rin dzin, hiding place, bag, way
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, sight), 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 | No | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 7 sight | det |
| 2 | sooner | soon | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 sight | advmod |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 sight | cop |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sight | nsubj |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 sight | case |
| 7 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strapped | nsubj |
| 8 | than | than | ADP | _ | 11 dzin | case |
| 9 | Rin | Rin | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 dzin | compound |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 Rin | punct |
| 11 | dzin | dzin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | nmod |
| 12 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 dzin | acl |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 place | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 place | nmod:poss |
| 15 | hiding | hiding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | compound |
| 16 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 15 hiding | punct |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 emerged | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 bag | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 bag | cc |
| 20 | picking | pick | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 bag | csubj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 picking | compound:prt |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 bag | det |
| 23 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 sight | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 gold | case |
| 25 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 bag | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 sight | punct |
| 27 | strapped | strap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 strapped | obj |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 saddle | case |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 31 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strapped | obl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 rode | cc |
| 33 | rode | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 saddle | conj |
| 34 | on | on | ADP | _ | 36 way | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 way | nmod:poss |
| 36 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 strapped | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 27 strapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | thief | no sight and the bag of gold | than Rin dzin; the bag of gold conj; soon property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | emerge | participle | Rin dzin not said here | thief's hiding place | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from place=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | pick up | gerund | vn discover-84-1 «NP V PP.topic S_ING»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | strap | past | no sight and the bag of gold | bag | thief's way | to thief's saddle and rode result | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent it=Patient to saddle=Result |
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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