Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 23
So the two set off together side by side, and after proceeding a short distance down the road they came upon a large Tree growing by the roadside.
Who acts: two, matters · What happens: set off, proceed, come, grow · To what, where: side, short distance, road
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two, matters), 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 | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 two | det |
| 3 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 set | nsubj |
| 4 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | off | off | ADP | _ | 4 set | compound:prt |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 set | advmod |
| 7 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 set | obl |
| 8 | by | by | ADP | _ | 9 side | case |
| 9 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 side | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 came | cc |
| 12 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 13 proceeding | mark |
| 13 | proceeding | proceed | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 came | advcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 distance | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 distance | amod |
| 16 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 proceeding | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 19 road | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 road | det |
| 19 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 set | conj |
| 22 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 25 Tree | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 Tree | det |
| 24 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 Tree | amod |
| 25 | Tree | Tree | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 26 | growing | grow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 came | advcl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 29 roadside | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 roadside | det |
| 29 | roadside | roadside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 growing | obl |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set off | past | the two | side by side | together property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | proceed | gerund | matters = matter not said here | a short distance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come | past | matters = matter | the road | upon a large Tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme down road=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | grow | gerund | matters = matter not said here | by the roadside | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme by roadside=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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