Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 44
One day he and the King’s three sons were out hunting together, when by chance they suddenly came upon a beautiful snow-white doe, who jumped up before them and galloped off towards the mountains.
Who acts: Baki, child, beautiful white doe · What happens: hunt, come, jump up, gallop off · To what, where: mountains
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 (Baki, child, beautiful white doe), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 hunting | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 hunting | nsubj |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 hunting | cc |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 King | det |
| 6 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 sons | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 6 King | case |
| 8 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 sons | nummod |
| 9 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 hunting | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunting | aux |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 were | compound:prt |
| 12 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 13 | together | together | ADV | _ | 12 hunting | advmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 15 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 came | advmod |
| 16 | by | by | ADP | _ | 17 chance | case |
| 17 | chance | chance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 18 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 19 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 20 came | advmod |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 hunting | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 27 doe | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 doe | det |
| 23 | beautiful | beautiful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 doe | amod |
| 24 | snow | snow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 white | obl |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 snow | punct |
| 26 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 doe | amod |
| 27 | doe | doe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 jumped | punct |
| 29 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 jumped | nsubj |
| 30 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 doe | conj |
| 31 | up | up | ADP | _ | 30 jumped | compound:prt |
| 32 | before | before | ADP | _ | 33 them | case |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 jumped | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 galloped | cc |
| 35 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 came | conj |
| 36 | off | off | ADP | _ | 35 galloped | compound:prt |
| 37 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 39 mountains | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 mountains | det |
| 39 | mountains | mountain | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 galloped | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 hunting | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hunt | past · progressive | Baki | day | the King's three sons nsubj; together property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | come | past | child | by chance; upon a beautiful white doe; suddenly property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by chance=Location | ||||
| 3 | jump up | past | a beautiful white doe | before child | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before they=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | gallop off | past | child not said here | the mountains | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards mountain=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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