Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 48
Baki, who was of a very courageous disposition, did not hesitate for a moment, but, leaping from his horse, he followed the lady into the cave, and scarcely had he entered when the rock doors closed behind him with a loud crash.
Who acts: Baki · What happens: be, not hesitate, leap, follow, have, enter · To what, where: lady, cave, rock doors
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), 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 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 hesitate | nsubj |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 disposition | punct |
| 3 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 disposition | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 disposition | cop |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 disposition | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 disposition | det |
| 7 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 courageous | advmod |
| 8 | courageous | courageous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 disposition | amod |
| 9 | disposition | disposition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Baki | appos |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Baki | punct |
| 11 | did | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hesitate | aux |
| 12 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 hesitate | advmod |
| 13 | hesitate | hesitate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | for | for | ADP | _ | 16 moment | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 moment | det |
| 16 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hesitate | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 followed | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 followed | cc |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaping | punct |
| 20 | leaping | leap | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 followed | advcl |
| 21 | from | from | ADP | _ | 23 horse | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 horse | nmod:poss |
| 23 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 leaping | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 leaping | punct |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 followed | nsubj |
| 26 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hesitate | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 lady | det |
| 28 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 followed | obj |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 cave | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 cave | det |
| 31 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 followed | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 had | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 had | cc |
| 34 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 35 had | advmod |
| 35 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 hesitate | parataxis |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 entered | nsubj |
| 37 | entered | enter | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 had | ccomp |
| 38 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 42 closed | mark |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 doors | det |
| 40 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 doors | compound |
| 41 | doors | door | NOUN | Number=Plur | 42 closed | nsubj:pass |
| 42 | closed | close | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 37 entered | ccomp |
| 43 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 44 him | case |
| 44 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 closed | obl |
| 45 | with | with | ADP | _ | 48 crash | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 crash | det |
| 47 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 crash | amod |
| 48 | crash | crash | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 closed | obl |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 hesitate | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Baki | of a courageous disposition | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not hesitate | past · do-support | Baki | moment | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | leap | gerund | Baki not said here | from Baki's horse | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from horse=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | follow | past | Baki | the lady | the cave | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lady=Theme into cave=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | have | past | scarcely property | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | enter | past | Baki | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | close | participle · passive | the rock doors | behind Baki; with a loud crash | vn fill-9.8 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Destination with crash=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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