Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 82
So returning to the young lady, he related to her all that he had heard.
Who acts: Baki · What happens: return, relate, hear · To what, where: 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), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 returning | advmod |
| 2 | returning | return | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 related | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 lady | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 lady | det |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 lady | amod |
| 6 | lady | lady | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 returning | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 returning | punct |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 related | nsubj |
| 9 | related | relate | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 her | case |
| 11 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 related | obl |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 heard | det:predet |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 heard | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 heard | nsubj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 heard | aux |
| 16 | heard | hear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 9 related | conj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 related | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | gerund | Baki not said here | to the young lady result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to lady=Result | ||||
| 2 | relate | past | Baki | lady | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to she=Co-Theme | ||||
| 3 | hear | past · perfect | Baki | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer |
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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