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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 52

So saying he took the pig’s head in both hands, and holding its snout towards the company, he went round from person to person, halting for a moment in front of each.

Who acts: person · What happens: say, take, hold, go round, halt · To what, where: head, hands, snout, person, front · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (person), 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

advmodadvclnsubjdetnmod:posscaseobjcasedetoblpunctccadvclnmod:possobjcasedetoblpunctnsubjconjadvmodcaseoblcaseoblpunctadvclcasedetoblcaseoblcasenmodpunctrootSoADVsayingVERBhePRONtookVERBtheDETpigNOUN’sPARTheadNOUNinADPbothDEThandsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJholdingVERBitsPRONsnoutNOUNtowardsADPtheDETcompanyNOUN,PUNCThePRONwentVERBroundADVfromADPpersonNOUNtoADPpersonNOUN,PUNCThaltingVERBforADPaDETmomentNOUNinADPfrontNOUNofADPeachDET.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_2 sayingadvmod
2sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 tookadvcl
3hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs4 tooknsubj
4tooktakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
5thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art6 pigdet
6pigpigNOUNNumber=Sing8 headnmod:poss
7’s'sPART_6 pigcase
8headheadNOUNNumber=Sing4 tookobj
9ininADP_11 handscase
10bothbothDETPronType=Tot11 handsdet
11handshandNOUNNumber=Plur4 tookobl
12,,PUNCT_14 holdingpunct
13andandCCONJ_14 holdingcc
14holdingholdVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part4 tookadvcl
15itsitsPRONCase=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs16 snoutnmod:poss
16snoutsnoutNOUNNumber=Sing14 holdingobj
17towardstowardsADP_19 companycase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 companydet
19companycompanyNOUNNumber=Sing14 holdingobl
20,,PUNCT_22 wentpunct
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 wentnsubj
22wentgoVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin4 tookconj
23roundroundADV_22 wentadvmod
24fromfromADP_25 personcase
25personpersonNOUNNumber=Sing22 wentobl
26totoADP_27 personcase
27personpersonNOUNNumber=Sing22 wentobl
28,,PUNCT_29 haltingpunct
29haltinghaltVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part22 wentadvcl
30forforADP_32 momentcase
31aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art32 momentdet
32momentmomentNOUNNumber=Sing29 haltingobl
33ininADP_34 frontcase
34frontfrontNOUNNumber=Sing29 haltingobl
35ofofADP_36 eachcase
36eacheachDETPronType=Tot34 frontnmod
37..PUNCT_4 tookpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertgerundperson not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2takepastpersonthe pig's headboth handsvn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent head=Value in hand=Location
3holdgerundperson not said herehead's snouttowards the companyvn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent snout=Theme
4go roundpastpersonpersonfrom person; round propertyvn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme from person=Initial_Location to person=Destination
5haltgerundperson not said herefront of eachmomentvn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality

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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