Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 31
So the poor Boy slank away sadly, and after wandering about till nightfall he reached another large house further towards the east.
Who acts: poor Boy slank · What happens: wonder, reach · To what, where: large house
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 slank), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 16 reached | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 slank | det |
| 3 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 slank | amod |
| 4 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 slank | compound |
| 5 | slank | slank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 slank | advmod |
| 7 | sadly | sadly | ADV | _ | 16 reached | advmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 reached | cc |
| 10 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 11 wandering | mark |
| 11 | wandering | wonder | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 reached | advcl |
| 12 | about | about | ADV | _ | 11 wandering | advmod |
| 13 | till | till | ADP | _ | 14 nightfall | case |
| 14 | nightfall | nightfall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 wandering | obl |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 reached | nsubj |
| 16 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 house | det |
| 18 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 house | amod |
| 19 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 reached | obj |
| 20 | further | further | ADV | _ | 23 east | advmod |
| 21 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 23 east | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 east | det |
| 23 | east | east | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 house | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 reached | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wonder speech: ask | gerund | the poor Boy slank not said here | till nightfall | about property | vn care-88.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||
| 2 | reach | past | the poor Boy slank | another large house | towards the east; slank nsubj; sadly property | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent house=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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