Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 9

He had never been away from home for so long before, so finally she despatched one of the young Tortoises to find out where his father was and how he was getting on.

Who acts: Tortoise, friend, father · What happens: have, not be, despatch, find out, get on · To what, where: home, one · Speech: someone speaks here

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tortoise, friend, father), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 had	nsubj
2	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	never	never	ADV	PronType=Neg	5 away	advmod
4	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	5 away	cop
5	away	away	ADV	_	2 had	advmod
6	from	from	ADP	_	7 home	case
7	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 away	obl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 long	case
9	so	so	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
10	long	long	ADV	Degree=Pos	2 had	advmod
11	before	before	ADV	_	10 long	advmod
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 despatched	punct
13	so	so	ADV	_	16 despatched	advmod
14	finally	finally	ADV	_	16 despatched	advmod
15	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 despatched	nsubj
16	despatched	despatch	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 had	conj
17	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	16 despatched	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	21 Tortoises	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 Tortoises	det
20	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 Tortoises	amod
21	Tortoises	tortoise	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 one	nmod
22	to	to	PART	_	23 find	mark
23	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 despatched	advcl
24	out	out	ADP	_	23 find	compound:prt
25	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	33 getting	advmod
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 father	nmod:poss
27	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 getting	nsubj
28	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 getting	aux
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 getting	cc
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 getting	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 getting	nsubj
32	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	33 getting	aux
33	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 find	ccomp
34	on	on	ADP	_	33 getting	compound:prt
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 had	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	have	past	Tortoise			long property	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
2	not is	participle			home	away property	tree rules
3	despatch	past	friend	one of the young Tortoises		finally property	tree rules
4	find out	to-infinitive	friend not said here				vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	get on	past · progressive	Tortoise's father			Tortoise nsubj	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 9

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 9