Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 9
One day the Servant noticed a fine fat sheep, which, having become separated from the rest of the flock, was wandering about near the Lama’s house.
Who acts: Servant, fine fat sheep · What happens: notice, have, become, separate, wonder · To what, where: fine fat sheep, house
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 (Servant, fine fat sheep), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Servant | det |
| 4 | Servant | Servant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 noticed | nsubj |
| 5 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 sheep | det |
| 7 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 sheep | amod |
| 8 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sheep | compound |
| 9 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 noticed | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 become | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 become | nsubj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 having | punct |
| 13 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 which | conj |
| 14 | become | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sheep | conj |
| 15 | separated | separate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 become | xcomp |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 18 rest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 rest | det |
| 18 | rest | rest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 separated | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 flock | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 flock | det |
| 21 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 rest | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 wandering | punct |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 wandering | aux |
| 24 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 noticed | advcl |
| 25 | about | about | ADV | _ | 24 wandering | advmod |
| 26 | near | near | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Lama | det |
| 28 | Lama | Lama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 house | nmod:poss |
| 29 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 28 Lama | case |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 wandering | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 noticed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | notice | past | the Servant | a fine fat sheep | day | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer sheep=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have | gerund | a fine fat sheep not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | become | present | a fine fat sheep | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | separate | participle | a fine fat sheep not said here | from the rest of the flock | vn separate-23.1-1-1 «NP V ADVP-Middle PP»: agent=Patient from rest=Co-Patient | ||||
| 5 | wonder speech: ask | past · progressive | the Servant not said here | the Lama's house | about property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer |
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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