Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 1
Once upon a time there were two Neighbours living in two houses, side by side, in the same village.
Who acts: two Neighbours · What happens: be, live · To what, where: two houses
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two Neighbours), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 were | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Neighbours | nummod |
| 8 | Neighbours | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 were | nsubj |
| 9 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 Neighbours | acl |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 houses | case |
| 11 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 houses | nummod |
| 12 | houses | house | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 living | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 side | punct |
| 14 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 houses | conj |
| 15 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 side | case |
| 16 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 side | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 village | punct |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 village | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 village | det |
| 20 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 village | amod |
| 21 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 living | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two Neighbours | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | live | gerund | two Neighbours not said here | two houses and side by side | in the same village | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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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