Folk tales from Tibet, How He Defeated the Enemy., sentence 6
Having ridden for some distance he reached the top of a hill, whence he could obtain a clear view of the enemy’s camp, and as he was sitting on his horse watching the scene below a trumpet suddenly sounded.
Who acts: Boy, trumpet · What happens: have, ride, reach, obtain, sit, watch · To what, where: top, clear view, scene, trumpet, camp
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, trumpet), 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 | Having | have | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 obtain | csubj |
| 2 | ridden | ride | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 1 Having | xcomp |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 distance | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 distance | det |
| 5 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 ridden | obl |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 reached | nsubj |
| 7 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 distance | acl:relcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 top | det |
| 9 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 reached | obj |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 hill | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 hill | det |
| 12 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 top | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 obtain | punct |
| 14 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 17 obtain | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 obtain | nsubj |
| 16 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 obtain | aux |
| 17 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 view | det |
| 19 | clear | clear | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 view | amod |
| 20 | view | view | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 obtain | obj |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 camp | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 enemy | det |
| 23 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 camp | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 enemy | case |
| 25 | camp | camp | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 view | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 sitting | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 sitting | cc |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 sitting | mark |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 sitting | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 sitting | aux |
| 31 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 obtain | conj |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 horse | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 horse | nmod:poss |
| 34 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 sitting | obl |
| 35 | watching | watch | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 31 sitting | advcl |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 scene | det |
| 37 | scene | scene | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 watching | obj |
| 38 | below | below | ADP | _ | 40 trumpet | case |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 trumpet | det |
| 40 | trumpet | trumpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 scene | nmod |
| 41 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 42 sounded | advmod |
| 42 | sounded | sound | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 trumpet | acl:relcl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 obtain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | ride | participle | for some distance | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP.agent V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | reach | past | Boy | the top of a hill | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 4 | obtain | could | Boy | a clear view of the enemy's camp | whence property | vn obtain-13.5.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent view=Theme | |||
| 5 | sit | past · progressive | Boy | on Boy's horse | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on horse=Location | ||||
| 6 | watch | gerund | Boy not said here | the scene | a trumpet | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent scene=Theme | |||
| 7 | sound | past | a trumpet not said here | suddenly property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | view | the enemy's camp | nom view «cognition 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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/25/6/