Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 1

After leaving the house where he had found the turquoise, the home-bred Boy wandered along until, towards nightfall, he arrived at the same poplar-tree where he had previously stayed the night, and, lying down under its branches, he fell fast asleep, and did not wake up until towards morning.

Who acts: bred Boy, he, Boy · What happens: leave, find, breed, wander, arrive, have · To what, where: house, turquoise, same poplar tree, branches

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (bred Boy, he, 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	After	after	SCONJ	_	2 leaving	mark
2	leaving	leave	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	17 wandered	advcl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 house	det
4	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 leaving	obj
5	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	8 found	advmod
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 found	nsubj
7	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 found	aux
8	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	4 house	acl:relcl
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 turquoise	det
10	turquoise	turquoise	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 found	obj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 leaving	punct
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	16 Boy	det
13	home	home	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 bred	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 home	punct
15	bred	breed	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 Boy	amod
16	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	17 wandered	nsubj
17	wandered	wander	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
18	along	along	ADV	_	17 wandered	advmod
19	until	until	SCONJ	_	25 arrived	mark
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 until	punct
21	towards	towards	ADP	_	22 nightfall	case
22	nightfall	nightfall	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 arrived	obl
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 nightfall	punct
24	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	25 arrived	nsubj
25	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wandered	advcl
26	at	at	ADP	_	31 tree	case
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 tree	det
28	same	same	ADJ	Degree=Pos	31 tree	amod
29	poplar	poplar	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 tree	compound
30	-	-	PUNCT	_	29 poplar	punct
31	tree	tree	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 arrived	obl
32	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	34 had	advmod
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 had	nsubj
34	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	36 stayed	advcl
35	previously	previously	ADV	_	36 stayed	advmod
36	stayed	stay	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 tree	conj
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 night	det
38	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 stayed	obl:unmarked
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 fell	punct
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 fell	cc
41	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 and	punct
42	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	49 fell	advcl
43	down	down	ADV	_	42 lying	advmod
44	under	under	ADP	_	46 branches	case
45	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	46 branches	nmod:poss
46	branches	branch	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 lying	obl
47	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 lying	punct
48	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	49 fell	nsubj
49	fell	fall	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 wandered	conj
50	fast	fast	ADV	Degree=Pos	49 fell	advmod
51	asleep	asleep	ADJ	Degree=Pos	49 fell	xcomp
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 wake	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 wake	cc
54	did	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 wake	aux
55	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	56 wake	advmod
56	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 wandered	conj
57	up	up	ADP	_	56 wake	compound:prt
58	until	until	ADP	_	60 morning	case
59	towards	towards	ADP	_	60 morning	case
60	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	56 wake	obl
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	17 wandered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	leave	gerund	the bred Boy not said here	the house				vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent house=Theme
2	find	past · perfect	he	the turquoise				vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent turquoise=Topic
3	breed	participle					home compound	tree rules
4	wander	past	the bred Boy				along property	vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	arrive	past	Boy		the same poplar tree		towards nightfall	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards nightfall=Initial_Location
6	have	past	Boy					vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
7	stay	past	Boy not said here			night	previously property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	lie down	gerund	Boy not said here		tree's branches		down property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent under branch=Location
9	fall	past	Boy				asleep, fast property	vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	not wake up	past · do-support	the bred Boy not said here			morning		vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 1

The tree

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 1