Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 1

There was once an old woman living in Tibet whose husband had died and left her alone with her only son.

Who acts: old woman, husband · What happens: be, live, die, leave · To what, where: Tibet, woman

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (old woman, husband), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 woman	det
5	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 woman	amod
6	woman	woman	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 was	nsubj
7	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	6 woman	acl
8	in	in	ADP	_	9 Tibet	case
9	Tibet	Tibet	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 living	obl
10	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	11 husband	nmod:poss
11	husband	husband	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 died	nsubj
12	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	13 died	aux
13	died	die	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 Tibet	acl:relcl
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 left	cc
15	left	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 was	conj
16	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 left	obj
17	alone	alone	ADV	_	15 left	advmod
18	with	with	ADP	_	19 her	case
19	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	15 left	obl
20	only	only	ADV	_	21 son	advmod
21	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 left	obl
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	be	past	a old woman		there	once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	gerund	a old woman not said here		Tibet		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tibet=Location
3	die	past · perfect	husband				vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4	leave	past	a old woman not said here	woman		with woman; son obl; alone property	vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent she=Recipient with she=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 1