Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 45
The four young men at once started off in pursuit; but the horses upon which the King’s sons were riding gradually tired, and one after another they dropped out of the hunt, leaving Baki to continue alone.
Who acts: four young men, horses, one, Baki · What happens: start off, ride, drop out, leave, continue · To what, where: pursuit, hunt, Baki
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 (four young men, horses, one, Baki), 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 | 4 men | det |
| 2 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 men | nummod |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 men | amod |
| 4 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 started | nsubj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 started | obl |
| 7 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 started | compound:prt |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 pursuit | case |
| 10 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 started | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 riding | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 riding | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 horses | det |
| 14 | horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 riding | nsubj |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 16 which | case |
| 16 | which | which | DET | PronType=Int | 20 sons | det |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 King | det |
| 18 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 sons | nmod:poss |
| 19 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 18 King | case |
| 20 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 horses | acl:relcl |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 riding | aux |
| 22 | riding | ride | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 started | advcl |
| 23 | gradually | gradually | ADV | _ | 24 tired | advmod |
| 24 | tired | tired | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 riding | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 dropped | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 dropped | cc |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 31 dropped | nsubj |
| 28 | after | after | ADP | _ | 29 another | case |
| 29 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 one | nmod |
| 30 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dropped | nsubj |
| 31 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 started | parataxis |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 hunt | case |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 hunt | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 hunt | det |
| 35 | hunt | hunt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 dropped | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 leaving | punct |
| 37 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 dropped | advcl |
| 38 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 leaving | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 continue | mark |
| 40 | continue | continue | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 leaving | xcomp |
| 41 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 40 continue | advmod |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | the four young men | pursuit | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | ride | past · progressive | the horses the King's sons | tired property | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | drop out | past | one after another | the hunt | child nsubj | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent hunt=Theme | |||
| 4 | leave | gerund | one after another not said here | Baki | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | continue | to-infinitive | Baki not said here | alone property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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