Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 39

The boy without any hesitation went forward along the path, followed by his mother, and after travelling for some distance they emerged from the great grass jungle into an open cultivated country.

Who acts: boy, child · What happens: go, follow, travel, emerge, cultivate · To what, where: path, open cultivated country, distance, great grass jungle

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 (boy, child), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 boy	det
2	boy	boy	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	nsubj
3	without	without	ADP	_	5 hesitation	case
4	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	5 hesitation	det
5	hesitation	hesitation	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 boy	nmod
6	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	forward	forward	ADV	_	6 went	advmod
8	along	along	ADP	_	10 path	case
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 path	det
10	path	path	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 went	obl
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 followed	punct
12	followed	follow	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 path	acl
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 mother	case
14	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 mother	nmod:poss
15	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 followed	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 travelling	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 travelling	cc
18	after	after	SCONJ	_	19 travelling	mark
19	travelling	travel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 went	advcl
20	for	for	ADP	_	22 distance	case
21	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	22 distance	det
22	distance	distance	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 travelling	obl
23	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 emerged	nsubj
24	emerged	emerge	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 distance	acl:relcl
25	from	from	ADP	_	29 jungle	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 jungle	det
27	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 jungle	amod
28	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 jungle	compound
29	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 emerged	obl
30	into	into	ADP	_	34 country	case
31	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 country	det
32	open	open	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 country	amod
33	cultivated	cultivate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	34 country	amod
34	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 travelling	obl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 went	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	go	past	the boy without any hesitation		the path	forward property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along path=Initial_Location
2	follow	participle		the path not said here		by boy's mother	vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by mother=Location
3	travel	gerund	the boy without any hesitation not said here		a open cultivated country	for some distance	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into country=Destination
4	emerge	past	child	some distance not said here	the great grass jungle		vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location distance=Theme
5	cultivate	participle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 39

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 39