Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 25
Wandering on a little further, he came to a big house where a wedding feast was being celebrated.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: wonder, come, celebrate · To what, where: big house, wedding feast
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 | Wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | advcl |
| 2 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 further | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 little | det |
| 4 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 further | obl |
| 5 | further | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 1 Wandering | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Wandering | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 house | case |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 house | det |
| 11 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 house | amod |
| 12 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 19 celebrated | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 feast | det |
| 15 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 feast | compound |
| 16 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 celebrated | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 18 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 celebrated | aux:pass |
| 19 | celebrated | celebrate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 house | acl:relcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | Boy not said here | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent on far=Topic | |||||
| 2 | come | past | Boy | a big house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | celebrate | past · passive | a wedding feast | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=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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