Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 49
Following the form of the lady along a narrow passage, he emerged presently into a great lofty apartment, hollowed out in the centre of the rock, luxuriously furnished and brilliantly lighted, and with a row of great glass pillars running down the centre.
Who acts: Baki, great glass pillars · What happens: follow, emerge, hollow out, furnish, light, run down · To what, where: form, narrow passage, great lofty apartment, centre, rock, lady
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, great glass pillars), 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 | Following | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 passage | csubj |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 form | det |
| 3 | form | form | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Following | obj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 lady | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 form | nmod |
| 7 | along | along | ADP | _ | 10 passage | case |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 passage | det |
| 9 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 passage | amod |
| 10 | passage | passage | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 emerged | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 emerged | nsubj |
| 13 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 passage | acl:relcl |
| 14 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 13 emerged | advmod |
| 15 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 apartment | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 apartment | det |
| 17 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 apartment | amod |
| 18 | lofty | lofty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 apartment | amod |
| 19 | apartment | apartment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 emerged | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 hollowed | punct |
| 21 | hollowed | hollow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 passage | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 hollowed | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 centre | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 centre | det |
| 25 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 hollowed | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 rock | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rock | det |
| 28 | rock | rock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 centre | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 furnished | punct |
| 30 | luxuriously | luxuriously | ADV | _ | 31 furnished | advmod |
| 31 | furnished | furnish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 rock | acl |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 lighted | cc |
| 33 | brilliantly | brilliantly | ADV | _ | 34 lighted | advmod |
| 34 | lighted | light | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 31 furnished | conj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 row | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 row | cc |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 row | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 row | det |
| 39 | row | row | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 passage | conj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 pillars | case |
| 41 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 pillars | amod |
| 42 | glass | glass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 pillars | compound |
| 43 | pillars | pillar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 row | nmod |
| 44 | running | run | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 43 pillars | acl |
| 45 | down | down | ADP | _ | 47 centre | case |
| 46 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 47 centre | det |
| 47 | centre | centre | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 running | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 passage | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | gerund | the form of the lady | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent form=Theme | |||||
| 2 | emerge | past | Baki | a narrow passage and a row of great glass pillars not said here | a great lofty apartment | presently property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location passage=Theme | ||
| 3 | hollow out | participle | the centre of the rock | vn clear-10.3 «NP V NP.source»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | furnish | participle | the rock not said here | luxuriously property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | light | participle | brilliantly property | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | run down | gerund | great glass pillars not said here | the centre | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme centre=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | form | the lady | nom form «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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