Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 39

Travellers passing constantly up and down the road avail themselves of this cool retreat, and they come themselves and they bring their poor beasts of burden to rest in my shadow.

Who acts: Travellers, my · What happens: pass, avail, come, bring, rest, shadow · To what, where: Travellers, poor beasts, shadow

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 (Travellers, my), 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	Travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 avail	nsubj
2	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	1 Travellers	acl
3	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	4 up	advmod
4	up	up	ADV	_	2 passing	advmod
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	8 road	cc
6	down	down	ADP	_	8 road	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 road	det
8	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 up	conj
9	avail	avail	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	9 avail	obj
11	of	of	ADP	_	14 retreat	case
12	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	14 retreat	det
13	cool	cool	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 retreat	amod
14	retreat	retreat	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 avail	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 come	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 come	cc
17	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	18 come	nsubj
18	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 avail	conj
19	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	18 come	obj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 bring	cc
21	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 bring	nsubj
22	bring	bring	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	18 come	conj
23	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 beasts	nmod:poss
24	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 beasts	amod
25	beasts	beast	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 bring	obj
26	of	of	ADP	_	27 burden	case
27	burden	burden	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 beasts	nmod
28	to	to	PART	_	29 rest	mark
29	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 bring	advcl
30	in	in	ADP	_	32 shadow	case
31	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 shadow	nmod:poss
32	shadow	shadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 rest	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 avail	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	pass	gerund	Travellers not said here				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	avail	present	Travellers	Travellers = traveller		of this cool retreat	tree rules
3	come	present	Travellers = traveller	Travellers = traveller			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location themselves=Theme
4	bring	present	Travellers = traveller	Travellers's poor beasts of burden			vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent beast=Theme
5	rest	to-infinitive	Travellers = traveller not said here		my shadow		vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in shadow=Location
6	shadow		my				nom shadow «state 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 39

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 39