Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 32
After the reception he had received from the wedding party he was afraid to go in or to knock at the door, so creeping into the backyard he dug himself a nest in the manure heap, and crouched down in this for warmth, all hidden except his head.
Who acts: slank · What happens: receive, be, go in, knock, creep, dig · To what, where: wedding party, backyard, slank, manure heap, this
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 (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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 reception | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 reception | det |
| 3 | reception | reception | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 received | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 received | aux |
| 6 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 party | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 party | det |
| 9 | wedding | wedding | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 party | compound |
| 10 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 received | obl |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 afraid | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 afraid | cop |
| 13 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 party | acl:relcl |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 go | mark |
| 15 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 afraid | xcomp |
| 16 | in | in | ADV | _ | 15 go | advmod |
| 17 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 knock | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 knock | mark |
| 19 | knock | knock | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 go | conj |
| 20 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 door | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 door | det |
| 22 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knock | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 creeping | punct |
| 24 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 creeping | advmod |
| 25 | creeping | creep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 received | advcl |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 backyard | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 backyard | det |
| 28 | backyard | backyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 creeping | obl |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dug | nsubj |
| 30 | dug | dig | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 backyard | acl:relcl |
| 31 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 30 dug | obj |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 nest | det |
| 33 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dug | obj |
| 34 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 heap | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 heap | det |
| 36 | manure | manure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 heap | compound |
| 37 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dug | obl |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 crouched | punct |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 crouched | cc |
| 40 | crouched | crouch | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 received | conj |
| 41 | down | down | ADP | _ | 40 crouched | compound:prt |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 43 this | case |
| 43 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 40 crouched | obl |
| 44 | for | for | ADP | _ | 45 warmth | case |
| 45 | warmth | warmth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 crouched | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 hidden | punct |
| 47 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 48 hidden | det |
| 48 | hidden | hidden | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 warmth | amod |
| 49 | except | except | ADP | _ | 51 head | case |
| 50 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 head | nmod:poss |
| 51 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 hidden | obl |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 received | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | receive | past · perfect | slank | the wedding party | after the reception | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from party=Source | |||
| 2 | is | past | slank | the wedding party not said here | afraid property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | go in | to-infinitive | slank not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | knock | to-infinitive | slank not said here | at the door | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent at door=Patient | ||||
| 5 | creep | gerund | slank not said here | the backyard | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into backyard=Destination | ||||
| 6 | dig | past | slank | slank | the manure heap | a nest obj | vn create-26.4-1-1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent himself=Beneficiary nest=Result | ||
| 7 | crouch down | participle | slank not said here | this | for warmth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in this=Location |
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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