Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 27
So the poor Queen was taken down to the river bank, and placing herself astride of a log of wood, she floated off down the great river.
Who acts: Queen · What happens: take down, place, float off · To what, where: poor Queen, Queen, log, great river
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Queen), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 taken | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Queen | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Queen | amod |
| 4 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | aux:pass |
| 6 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | down | down | ADP | _ | 6 taken | compound:prt |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 bank | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 bank | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bank | compound |
| 11 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 taken | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 floated | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 floated | cc |
| 14 | placing | place | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 floated | advcl |
| 15 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 14 placing | obj |
| 16 | astride | astride | ADP | _ | 19 log | case |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 log | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 log | det |
| 19 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 placing | obl |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 wood | case |
| 21 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 log | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 placing | punct |
| 23 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 floated | nsubj |
| 24 | floated | float | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 taken | conj |
| 25 | off | off | ADP | _ | 24 floated | compound:prt |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 river | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 river | det |
| 28 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 river | amod |
| 29 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 floated | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 taken | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take down | past · passive | the poor Queen | to the river bank | vn scribble-25.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 2 | place | gerund | Queen not said here | Queen | a log of wood | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Theme astride log=Destination | |||
| 3 | float off | past | Queen | the great river | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme down river=Trajectory |
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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