Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 38
The Lady of the house was now completely cured and overwhelmed the Boy with gifts and compliments, and he left the house carrying with him a large sum of gold, in addition to that which he had received the day before.
Who acts: Boy, house · What happens: cure, overwhelm, leave, carry, receive, sum · To what, where: Lady, Boy, house, addition, large sum, gold
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 (Boy, house), 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 Lady | det |
| 2 | Lady | Lady | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 cured | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 house | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 house | det |
| 5 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 Lady | nmod |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cured | aux:pass |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 cured | advmod |
| 8 | completely | completely | ADV | _ | 9 cured | advmod |
| 9 | cured | cure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 overwhelmed | cc |
| 11 | overwhelmed | overwhelm | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 cured | conj |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Boy | det |
| 13 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 overwhelmed | obj |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 gifts | case |
| 15 | gifts | gift | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 overwhelmed | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 compliments | cc |
| 17 | compliments | compliment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 gifts | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 left | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 left | cc |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 left | nsubj |
| 21 | left | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 cured | parataxis |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 house | det |
| 23 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obj |
| 24 | carrying | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 23 house | acl |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 him | case |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carrying | obl |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 sum | det |
| 28 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 sum | amod |
| 29 | sum | sum | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 carrying | obj |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 gold | case |
| 31 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 sum | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 addition | punct |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 addition | case |
| 34 | addition | addition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 left | obl |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 that | case |
| 36 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 addition | nmod |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 received | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 received | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 received | aux |
| 40 | received | receive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 addition | acl:relcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 day | det |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 received | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | before | before | ADV | _ | 40 received | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 cured | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cure | past · passive | the Lady of the house | now | completely property | vn free-10.6.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: subject=Source | |||
| 2 | overwhelm | participle | the Boy | with gifts and compliments | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus boy=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | leave | past | Boy | the house | addition to that | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent house=Theme in addition=Location | |||
| 4 | carry | gerund | the house not said here | a large sum of gold | with Boy | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sum=Theme | |||
| 5 | receive | past · perfect · passive | addition to that | day | Boy nsubj; before property | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||
| 6 | sum | gold | nom sum «possession 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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