Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 6
The Boy was greatly delighted at receiving these gifts and with the prospect of meeting with some adventures, so after saying farewell to his Mother, he mounted his horse, and with the dog trotting at his heels he started away down the road.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: be, receive, say, mount, trot, start away · To what, where: gifts, horse, heels, meeting · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 delighted | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 delighted | cop |
| 4 | greatly | greatly | ADV | _ | 5 delighted | advmod |
| 5 | delighted | delighted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 7 receiving | mark |
| 7 | receiving | receive | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 delighted | advcl |
| 8 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 gifts | det |
| 9 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 receiving | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 prospect | cc |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 prospect | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 prospect | det |
| 13 | prospect | prospect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 gifts | conj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 meeting | case |
| 15 | meeting | meeting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 prospect | nmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 adventures | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 adventures | det |
| 18 | adventures | adventure | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 meeting | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 saying | punct |
| 20 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 saying | advmod |
| 21 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 22 saying | mark |
| 22 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 receiving | conj |
| 23 | farewell | farewell | ADV | _ | 22 saying | advmod |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 Mother | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Mother | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 farewell | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 mounted | punct |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 mounted | nsubj |
| 29 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 saying | conj |
| 30 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 horse | nmod:poss |
| 31 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 mounted | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 trotting | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 trotting | cc |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 dog | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 dog | det |
| 36 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 trotting | compound |
| 37 | trotting | trot | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 delighted | advcl |
| 38 | at | at | ADP | _ | 40 heels | case |
| 39 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 heels | nmod:poss |
| 40 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 37 trotting | obl |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 started | nsubj |
| 42 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 heels | acl:relcl |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 42 started | advmod |
| 44 | down | down | ADP | _ | 46 road | case |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 road | det |
| 46 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 started | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 delighted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Boy | delighted, greatly property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | receive | gerund | the Boy not said here | this gifts and the prospect of meeting with some adventures | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent gift=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | the Boy not said here | farewell property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | mount | past | Boy | Boy's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 5 | trot | gerund | the Boy not said here | Boy's heels | the dog compound | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at heel=Trajectory | |||
| 6 | start away | past | Boy | Boy's heels not said here | down the road; away property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent heel=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | prospect | meeting with some adventures | nom prospect «state transitive»: of=patient |
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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