Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 49
Here having recovered his sword and his gun, his clothing and other possessions, he mounted upon his horse and followed by his dog he returned to his Mother’s house a very much richer Boy than when he had left it.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: recover, mount, follow, return, leave · To what, where: sword, richer Boy
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), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 recovered | advmod |
| 2 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 recovered | aux |
| 3 | recovered | recover | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 mounted | advcl |
| 4 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 sword | nmod:poss |
| 5 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 recovered | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 gun | cc |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 gun | nmod:poss |
| 8 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sword | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 clothing | punct |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 clothing | nmod:poss |
| 11 | clothing | clothing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 sword | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 possessions | cc |
| 13 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 possessions | amod |
| 14 | possessions | possession | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 sword | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 recovered | punct |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 mounted | nsubj |
| 17 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 20 horse | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 mounted | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 followed | cc |
| 22 | followed | follow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 mounted | conj |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 25 dog | case |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 dog | nmod:poss |
| 25 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 followed | obl:agent |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 returned | nsubj |
| 27 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 mounted | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 house | case |
| 29 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 Mother | nmod:poss |
| 30 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 house | nmod:poss |
| 31 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 30 Mother | case |
| 32 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 returned | obl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 Boy | det |
| 34 | very | very | ADV | _ | 35 much | advmod |
| 35 | much | much | ADV | _ | 36 richer | advmod |
| 36 | richer | rich | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 37 Boy | amod |
| 37 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 returned | obl |
| 38 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 42 left | mark |
| 39 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 42 left | advmod |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 left | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 left | aux |
| 42 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 27 returned | advcl |
| 43 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 left | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recover | gerund · perfect | Boy not said here | Boy's sword and Boy's gun and Boy's clothing and other possessions | here | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sword=Theme | |||
| 2 | mount | past | Boy | upon Boy's horse | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon horse=Destination | ||||
| 3 | follow | participle | Boy not said here | Boy's dog obl:agent | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | return | past | Boy | a richer Boy | to Boy's Mother's house result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to house=Result | |||
| 5 | leave | past · perfect | Boy | sword | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme |
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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