Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 41
As the Boy came down the road the old Beggar suddenly emerged from behind a clump of bushes, holding a sword in his right hand and a fly in the hollow of his left fist.
Who acts: old Beggar · What happens: come down, emerge, hold · To what, where: road, clump, sword, right hand
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 (old Beggar), 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 | As | as | ADP | _ | 3 Boy | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Boy | det |
| 3 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | obl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Beggar | det |
| 9 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 Beggar | amod |
| 10 | Beggar | Beggar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 emerged | nsubj |
| 11 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 12 emerged | advmod |
| 12 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | parataxis |
| 13 | from | from | ADP | _ | 16 clump | case |
| 14 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 16 clump | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 clump | det |
| 16 | clump | clump | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 emerged | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 bushes | case |
| 18 | bushes | bush | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 clump | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 holding | punct |
| 20 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 emerged | advcl |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 sword | det |
| 22 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 holding | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 hand | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 hand | nmod:poss |
| 25 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 hand | amod |
| 26 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 holding | obl |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 fly | cc |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 fly | det |
| 29 | fly | fly | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 hand | conj |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 hollow | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 hollow | det |
| 32 | hollow | hollow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 fly | nmod |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 fist | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 fist | nmod:poss |
| 35 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 fist | amod |
| 36 | fist | fist | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 hollow | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come down | past | the road | as the Boy; down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | emerge | past | the old Beggar | a clump of bushes | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from clump=Initial_Location | |||
| 3 | hold | gerund | the old Beggar not said here | a sword | Boy's right hand and a fly in the hollow of Boy's left fist | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent sword=Theme in hand=Location |
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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