Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 1
On his return to his home the home-bred Boy found that he was now famous far and wide for his supposed magical powers, and he was constantly consulted by people of all classes, who wanted his assistance in their various affairs.
Who acts: bred Boy, Boy, people, classes, his · What happens: breed, find, be, suppose, consult, want · To what, where: return, Boy, assistance, various affairs · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Defeated the Enemy.. 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, Boy, people, classes), 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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 return | case |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 return | nmod:poss |
| 3 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 found | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 home | case |
| 5 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 home | nmod:poss |
| 6 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 return | nmod |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Boy | det |
| 8 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 bred | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 home | punct |
| 10 | bred | breed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 Boy | amod |
| 11 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 found | nsubj |
| 12 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 famous | mark |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 famous | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 famous | cop |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 famous | advmod |
| 17 | famous | famous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 found | ccomp |
| 18 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 famous | advmod |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 wide | cc |
| 20 | wide | wide | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 famous | conj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 powers | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 powers | nmod:poss |
| 23 | supposed | suppose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 powers | amod |
| 24 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 powers | amod |
| 25 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 wide | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 consulted | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 consulted | cc |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 consulted | nsubj |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 consulted | aux:pass |
| 30 | constantly | constantly | ADV | _ | 31 consulted | advmod |
| 31 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 found | conj |
| 32 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 people | case |
| 33 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 consulted | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 classes | case |
| 35 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 36 classes | det |
| 36 | classes | class | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 people | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 wanted | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 wanted | nsubj |
| 39 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 classes | acl:relcl |
| 40 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 41 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 wanted | obj |
| 42 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 affairs | case |
| 43 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 affairs | nmod:poss |
| 44 | various | various | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 affairs | amod |
| 45 | affairs | affair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 wanted | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | breed | participle | home compound | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | find | past | the bred Boy | his return to his home | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | past | Boy | now | famous, far property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | be | Boy not said here | for Boy's supposed magical powers | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | suppose | participle | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 6 | consult | past · passive | people of all classes | Boy | constantly property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 7 | want | past | all classes | Boy's assistance | classes's various affairs | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot assistance=Theme | |||
| 8 | return | his = he | to his home | nom return «communication intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl | |||||
| 9 | assist | Boy | nom assistance «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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