Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 66
Next morning at daybreak he set off about his business, and as soon as he was gone the girl opened the pillar and released Baki, and after giving him a good breakfast, she spoke to him as follows:
Who acts: Scarcely, girl · What happens: set off, be, open, release, give, speak · To what, where: pillar, Baki, good breakfast, Scarcely · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Scarcely, girl), 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 | Next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 morning | amod |
| 2 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 daybreak | case |
| 4 | daybreak | daybreak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 morning | nmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 set | nsubj |
| 6 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 set | compound:prt |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 business | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 business | nmod:poss |
| 10 | business | business | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 set | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 gone | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 gone | cc |
| 13 | as | as | ADV | _ | 14 soon | advmod |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 18 gone | advmod |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 gone | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 gone | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | cop |
| 18 | gone | gone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 set | parataxis |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 girl | det |
| 20 | girl | girl | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opened | nsubj |
| 21 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 gone | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 pillar | det |
| 23 | pillar | pillar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 opened | obj |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 released | cc |
| 25 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 opened | conj |
| 26 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 released | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 spoke | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 spoke | cc |
| 29 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 30 giving | mark |
| 30 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 spoke | advcl |
| 31 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 giving | iobj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 breakfast | det |
| 33 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 breakfast | amod |
| 34 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 giving | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 giving | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 spoke | nsubj |
| 37 | spoke | speak | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 set | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 spoke | obl |
| 40 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 41 follows | mark |
| 41 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 37 spoke | advcl |
| 42 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 6 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | Scarcely | morning | about Scarcely's business | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | past | Scarcely | gone, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | open | past | the girl | the pillar | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location pillar=Theme | ||||
| 4 | release | past | the girl not said here | Baki | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer baki=Source | ||||
| 5 | give | gerund | girl not said here | a good breakfast | Baki | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient breakfast=Theme | |||
| 6 | speak speech: other | past | girl | Scarcely | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 7 | follow | present | girl not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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