Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 88
After lying on the mounting-block for some time it chanced that one of the grooms of the palace passed by, and, seeing the shell, he paused to look at it, and remarked to himself:
Who acts: block, palace · What happens: lie, chance, pass by, see, pause, look · To what, where: mounting block, one, palace, shell
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 (block, palace), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 lying | mark |
| 2 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 chanced | advcl |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 block | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 block | det |
| 5 | mounting | mounting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 block | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 mounting | punct |
| 7 | block | block | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lying | obl |
| 8 | for | for | ADP | _ | 10 time | case |
| 9 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 lying | obl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 chanced | nsubj |
| 12 | chanced | chance | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 one | mark |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 chanced | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 grooms | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 grooms | det |
| 17 | grooms | groom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 one | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 palace | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 palace | det |
| 20 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grooms | nmod |
| 21 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 palace | acl |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 21 passed | advmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 paused | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 paused | cc |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 and | punct |
| 26 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 paused | advcl |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 shell | det |
| 28 | shell | shell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 seeing | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 seeing | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 paused | nsubj |
| 31 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 chanced | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 look | mark |
| 33 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 paused | xcomp |
| 34 | at | at | ADP | _ | 35 it | case |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 look | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 remarked | punct |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 remarked | cc |
| 38 | remarked | remark | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 chanced | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 himself | case |
| 40 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 remarked | obl |
| 41 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 12 chanced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lie | gerund | block not said here | the mounting block | time | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on block=Location | |||
| 2 | chance | past | block | one of the grooms of the palace | vn risk-94-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Pivot | ||||
| 3 | pass by | participle | the palace not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | see | gerund | palace not said here | the shell | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shell=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | pause | past | palace | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | look | to-infinitive | palace not said here | at block | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 7 | remark speech: assert | participle | block not said here | palace | vn lecture-37.11-1 «NP V PP.recipient PP.topic»: agent=Agent to himself=Recipient |
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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