Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 5

So early next morning, when he mounted his horse with the intention of riding out and reconnoitring the enemy’s camp, in order to see what could be done, he made his servant tie his feet together with a rope under the horse’s belly, so that he should not fall off if it ran away or played any pranks with him.

Who acts: Boy, intention, servant · What happens: mount, ride out, reconnoitre, see, do, make · To what, where: horse, camp, belly, feet, pranks · 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 (Boy, intention, servant), 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	So	so	ADV	_	8 mounted	advmod
2	early	early	ADV	Degree=Pos	4 morning	advmod
3	next	next	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 morning	amod
4	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mounted	obl
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	8 mounted	punct
6	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	8 mounted	advmod
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 mounted	nsubj
8	mounted	mount	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
9	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	10 horse	nmod:poss
10	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mounted	obj
11	with	with	ADP	_	13 intention	case
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 intention	det
13	intention	intention	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 mounted	obl
14	of	of	SCONJ	_	15 riding	mark
15	riding	ride	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	13 intention	acl
16	out	out	ADP	_	15 riding	compound:prt
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 reconnoitring	cc
18	reconnoitring	reconnoitre	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 riding	conj
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 enemy	det
20	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 camp	nmod:poss
21	’s	's	PART	_	20 enemy	case
22	camp	camp	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 reconnoitring	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 see	punct
24	in	in	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	27 see	mark
25	order	order	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 in	fixed
26	to	to	PART	_	27 see	mark
27	see	see	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 reconnoitring	advcl
28	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	31 done	obj
29	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 done	aux
30	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	31 done	aux:pass
31	done	do	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 see	ccomp
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 made	punct
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 made	nsubj
34	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 mounted	conj
35	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 servant	nmod:poss
36	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tie	nsubj
37	tie	tie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 made	ccomp
38	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	39 feet	nmod:poss
39	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	37 tie	obj
40	together	together	ADV	_	37 tie	advmod
41	with	with	ADP	_	43 rope	case
42	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	43 rope	det
43	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 tie	obl
44	under	under	ADP	_	48 belly	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 horse	det
46	horse	horse	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 belly	nmod:poss
47	’s	's	PART	_	46 horse	case
48	belly	belly	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 made	obl
49	,	,	PUNCT	_	55 fall	punct
50	so	so	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	55 fall	mark
51	that	that	SCONJ	_	50 so	fixed
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	55 fall	nsubj
53	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	55 fall	aux
54	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	55 fall	advmod
55	fall	fall	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 made	parataxis
56	off	off	ADP	_	55 fall	compound:prt
57	if	if	SCONJ	_	59 ran	mark
58	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 ran	nsubj
59	ran	run	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	55 fall	advcl
60	away	away	ADV	_	59 ran	advmod
61	or	or	CCONJ	_	62 played	cc
62	played	play	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	59 ran	conj
63	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	64 pranks	det
64	pranks	prank	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 played	obj
65	with	with	ADP	_	66 him	case
66	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	62 played	obl
67	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 mounted	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	mount	past	Boy	Boy's horse		morning	with the intention	vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent horse=Patient with intention=Instrument
2	ride out	gerund	the intention not said here					vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent
3	reconnoitre	gerund	the intention not said here	the enemy's camp				tree rules
4	see	to-infinitive	the intention not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
5	do	could · passive					what obj	vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: what=Eventuality
6	make	past	Boy		the horse's belly			tree rules
7	tie	present	Boy's servant	Boy's feet			with a rope; together property	vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent foot=Patient with rope=Co-Patient
8	not fall off	should	Boy					vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
9	run away a condition, not said to happen	past	servant				away property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
10	play	past	servant not said here	any pranks			with Boy	vn play-114.2-1 «NP V NP PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent prank=Theme with he=Co-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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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 5