Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 78
The young lady was greatly rejoiced at the successful issue of their adventure, and the two, leaving the Ogre’s body behind them, proceeded forthwith to the capital of the country, where the King’s palace was situated.
Who acts: words · What happens: rejoice, leave, proceed, situate, issue, adventure · To what, where: young lady, successful issue, body, two, palace, adventure
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 (words), 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 | 3 lady | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 lady | amod |
| 3 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejoiced | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoiced | aux:pass |
| 5 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 6 rejoiced | advmod |
| 6 | rejoiced | rejoice | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 10 issue | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 issue | det |
| 9 | successful | successful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 issue | amod |
| 10 | issue | issue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 rejoiced | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 adventure | case |
| 12 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 adventure | nmod:poss |
| 13 | adventure | adventure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 issue | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 proceeded | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 proceeded | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 two | det |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 proceeded | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 leaving | punct |
| 19 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 two | advcl |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 Ogre | det |
| 21 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 body | nmod:poss |
| 22 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 21 Ogre | case |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 leaving | obj |
| 24 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 25 them | case |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 leaving | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 proceeded | punct |
| 27 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 rejoiced | conj |
| 28 | forthwith | forthwith | ADV | _ | 27 proceeded | advmod |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 capital | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 capital | det |
| 31 | capital | capital | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 proceeded | obl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 country | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 country | det |
| 34 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 capital | nmod |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 situated | punct |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 situated | advmod |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 King | det |
| 38 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 40 palace | nmod:poss |
| 39 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 38 King | case |
| 40 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 situated | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 situated | aux:pass |
| 42 | situated | situate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 country | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 rejoiced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rejoice | past · passive | the young lady | the successful issue of words's adventure | greatly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | gerund | the Ogre's body | behind words = word | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent body=Theme behind they=Location | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | the two | to the capital of the country; forthwith property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | situate | past · passive | the King's palace | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 5 | issue | words's adventure | nom issue «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | adventure | words = word | nom adventure «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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