Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 41
Having heard her story, they mounted her and the boy upon a horse and carried them off to the King’s palace.
Who acts: child · What happens: have, hear, mount, carry off · To what, where: story, Queen, child, palace
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 (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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 heard | nsubj |
| 2 | heard | hear | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 story | nmod:poss |
| 4 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 heard | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 mounted | punct |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 mounted | nsubj |
| 7 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 heard | parataxis |
| 8 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 mounted | obj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 boy | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 boy | det |
| 11 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mounted | conj |
| 12 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 14 horse | case |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 horse | det |
| 14 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 mounted | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 carried | cc |
| 16 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 mounted | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 carried | obj |
| 18 | off | off | ADP | _ | 16 carried | compound:prt |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 palace | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 King | det |
| 21 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 palace | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 King | case |
| 23 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 carried | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 heard | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | hear | past | Queen's story | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer story=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | mount | past | child | Queen | upon a horse; the boy conj | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent she=Theme upon horse=Destination | |||
| 4 | carry off | past | child not said here | child | the King's palace | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to palace=Destination |
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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