Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 40
Now it happened that on that day the three sons of the King of that country were out hunting together, and as they rode along looking out for game they suddenly came upon the Queen and her son.
Who acts: it, three sons, child · What happens: happen, hunt, ride along, look out, come · To what, where: game
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 (it, three sons, 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 hunting | mark |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 day | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 day | det |
| 7 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 hunting | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 sons | det |
| 9 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 sons | nummod |
| 10 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 hunting | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 King | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 King | det |
| 13 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 sons | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 country | case |
| 15 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 country | det |
| 16 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 King | nmod |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 hunting | aux |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 were | compound:prt |
| 19 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 happened | advcl |
| 20 | together | together | ADV | _ | 19 hunting | advmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 rode | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 rode | cc |
| 23 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 rode | mark |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 rode | nsubj |
| 25 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | conj |
| 26 | along | along | ADV | _ | 25 rode | advmod |
| 27 | looking | look | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 rode | xcomp |
| 28 | out | out | ADP | _ | 27 looking | compound:prt |
| 29 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 game | case |
| 30 | game | game | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 looking | obl |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 came | nsubj |
| 32 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 33 came | advmod |
| 33 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 game | acl:relcl |
| 34 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 36 Queen | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Queen | det |
| 36 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 came | obl |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 son | cc |
| 38 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 son | nmod:poss |
| 39 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 Queen | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | hunt | past · progressive | the three sons of the King of that country | day | together property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | ride along | past | child | along property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | look out | gerund | child not said here | for game | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for game=Theme | ||||
| 5 | come | past | child | game not said here | upon the Queen and Queen's son; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location game=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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