Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 73
On hearing this Baki at once promised to follow the lady’s directions, and she released him from the cavern.
Who acts: Parrot · What happens: hear, promise, follow, release · To what, where: Baki, directions, cavern
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 (Parrot), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 promised | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 Baki | det |
| 4 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 hearing | obj |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 7 promised | obl |
| 7 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 follow | mark |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 promised | xcomp |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lady | det |
| 11 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 directions | nmod:poss |
| 12 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 11 lady | case |
| 13 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 follow | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 released | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 released | cc |
| 16 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 released | nsubj |
| 17 | released | release | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 promised | conj |
| 18 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 released | obj |
| 19 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 cavern | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 cavern | det |
| 21 | cavern | cavern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 released | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 promised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | this Baki | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer baki=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | promise speech: promise | past | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | follow not said to happen | to-infinitive | the lady's directions | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | |||||
| 4 | release | past | Parrot | Baki | the cavern | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer he=Source |
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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