Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 28
After floating along for several hours the current at length carried her to the opposite bank, many miles away from her own country, and as soon as she arrived in shallow water she waded ashore and looked about her.
Who acts: current, Queen · What happens: float, carry, arrive, wade, look · To what, where: Queen, opposite bank, shallow water
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 (current, 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 floating | mark |
| 2 | floating | float | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 carried | advcl |
| 3 | along | along | ADV | _ | 2 floating | advmod |
| 4 | for | for | ADP | _ | 6 hours | case |
| 5 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 hours | amod |
| 6 | hours | hour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 carried | obl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 current | det |
| 8 | current | current | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | nsubj |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 length | case |
| 10 | length | length | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 current | nmod |
| 11 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 carried | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 bank | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 bank | det |
| 15 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 bank | amod |
| 16 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 carried | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 miles | punct |
| 18 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 miles | amod |
| 19 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 bank | conj |
| 20 | away | away | ADV | _ | 19 miles | advmod |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 country | case |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 country | nmod:poss |
| 23 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 country | amod |
| 24 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 away | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 arrived | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 arrived | cc |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 soon | advmod |
| 28 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 31 arrived | advmod |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 arrived | mark |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 arrived | nsubj |
| 31 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 carried | conj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 water | case |
| 33 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 water | amod |
| 34 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 arrived | obl |
| 35 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 waded | nsubj |
| 36 | waded | wade | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 arrived | conj |
| 37 | ashore | ashore | ADV | _ | 36 waded | advmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 looked | cc |
| 39 | looked | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 waded | conj |
| 40 | about | about | ADP | _ | 41 her | case |
| 41 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 looked | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | float | gerund | the current at length not said here | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | carry | past | the current at length | Queen | the opposite bank and many miles | hour | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme to bank=Destination | ||
| 3 | arrive | past | Queen | shallow water | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | wade | past | Queen | ashore property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | look | past | Queen not said here | about Queen | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent about she=Theme |
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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