Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 39
Shortly after, one of the maid-servants came out of the house, and seeing a piece of rag lying in the middle of the yard, she picked it up, and the turquoise with it, and thrust them both into a crevice in the wall.
Who acts: Lady, rag · What happens: come out, see, lie, pick up, thrust · To what, where: house, piece, middle, yard, crevice
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 (Lady, rag), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 4 one | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 4 one | case |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 one | punct |
| 4 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 came | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 servants | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 servants | det |
| 7 | maid | maid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 servants | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 maid | punct |
| 9 | servants | servant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 came | obl |
| 10 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 house | det |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 came | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 picked | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 picked | cc |
| 17 | seeing | see | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 picked | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 piece | det |
| 19 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 seeing | obj |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 rag | case |
| 21 | rag | rag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 piece | nmod |
| 22 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 rag | acl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 middle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 middle | det |
| 25 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 lying | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 yard | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 yard | det |
| 28 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 middle | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 seeing | punct |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 picked | nsubj |
| 31 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 came | conj |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 picked | obj |
| 33 | up | up | ADP | _ | 31 picked | compound:prt |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 turquoise | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 turquoise | cc |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 turquoise | det |
| 37 | turquoise | turquoise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 picked | obl |
| 38 | with | with | ADP | _ | 39 it | case |
| 39 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 turquoise | nmod |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 thrust | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 thrust | cc |
| 42 | thrust | thrust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 picked | conj |
| 43 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 thrust | obj |
| 44 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 42 thrust | obj |
| 45 | into | into | ADP | _ | 47 crevice | case |
| 46 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 crevice | det |
| 47 | crevice | crevice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 thrust | obl |
| 48 | in | in | ADP | _ | 50 wall | case |
| 49 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 50 wall | det |
| 50 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 crevice | nmod |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come out | past | the house | after one | of the maid servants | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient house=Result | |||
| 2 | see | gerund | Lady not said here | a piece of rag | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer piece=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | lie | gerund | rag not said here | the middle of the yard | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in middle=Location | ||||
| 4 | pick up | past | Lady | piece | the turquoise with house obl | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 5 | thrust | infinitive | Lady not said here | yard | a crevice in the wall | vn carry-11.4-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination both=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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