Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 15
The poor Boy found himself in a moment bereft of all his possessions—his horse, his dog, his gun, his sword, his hat, and even his outer robe, which he had strapped on his saddle, had all disappeared.
Who acts: poor Boy, Boy · What happens: find, strap, disappear, possess · To what, where: Boy, outer robe, saddle
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 (poor Boy, Boy), 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 Boy | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Boy | amod |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 found | nsubj |
| 4 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 4 found | obj |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 moment | case |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 moment | det |
| 8 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | obl |
| 9 | bereft | bereft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 found | xcomp |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 possessions | case |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 possessions | det:predet |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 possessions | nmod:poss |
| 13 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 bereft | obl |
| 14 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 horse | punct |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 horse | nmod:poss |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 possessions | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 dog | punct |
| 18 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 dog | nmod:poss |
| 19 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 gun | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 gun | nmod:poss |
| 22 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 sword | punct |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 sword | nmod:poss |
| 25 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | conj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 hat | punct |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 hat | nmod:poss |
| 28 | hat | hat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 horse | conj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 robe | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 robe | cc |
| 31 | even | even | ADV | _ | 34 robe | advmod |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 robe | nmod:poss |
| 33 | outer | outer | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 robe | amod |
| 34 | robe | robe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 found | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 strapped | punct |
| 36 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 strapped | nsubj:pass |
| 37 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 strapped | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 strapped | aux |
| 39 | strapped | strap | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 robe | conj |
| 40 | on | on | ADP | _ | 42 saddle | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 saddle | nmod:poss |
| 42 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 strapped | obl |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 46 disappeared | punct |
| 44 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 disappeared | aux |
| 45 | all | all | ADV | _ | 46 disappeared | advmod |
| 46 | disappeared | disappear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 found | conj |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | the poor Boy | Boy | moment | Boy's outer robe parataxis; bereft property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 2 | strap | past · perfect · passive | Boy's outer robe | Boy's saddle | Boy nsubj | vn spank-18.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Patient on saddle=Location | |||
| 3 | disappear | past · perfect | the poor Boy not said here | all property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | possess | Boy | nom possession «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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