Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 16
After running after his horse for some distance he gave it up in despair, and lay down to pass the night as best he could under a big poplar-tree.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: run, give up, lay down, pass · To what, where: horse, despair, best
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 (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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 running | mark |
| 2 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 gave | advcl |
| 3 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 horse | case |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 horse | nmod:poss |
| 5 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 running | obl |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 distance | case |
| 7 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 8 distance | det |
| 8 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 running | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | nsubj |
| 10 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 gave | obj |
| 12 | up | up | ADP | _ | 10 gave | compound:prt |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 despair | case |
| 14 | despair | despair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 gave | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 lay | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 lay | cc |
| 17 | lay | lay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 gave | conj |
| 18 | down | down | ADV | _ | 17 lay | advmod |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 pass | mark |
| 20 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 lay | advcl |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 night | det |
| 22 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 pass | obj |
| 23 | as | as | ADV | _ | 24 best | advmod |
| 24 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 pass | obl |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 could | nsubj |
| 26 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 pass | advcl |
| 27 | under | under | ADP | _ | 32 tree | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 tree | det |
| 29 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tree | amod |
| 30 | poplar | poplar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tree | compound |
| 31 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 30 poplar | punct |
| 32 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 could | obl |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | Boy not said here | after Boy's horse | for some distance | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for distance=Beneficiary | |||
| 2 | give up | past | Boy | horse | despair | vn resign-10.11-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Source | |||
| 3 | lay down | infinitive | Boy not said here | down property | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | pass | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | best | night | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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