Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 15
So he planted the grain just in front of his house, and soon forgot all about the incident.
Who acts: way · What happens: plant, forget · To what, where: grain, front
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 (way), 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 | _ | 3 planted | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 planted | nsubj |
| 3 | planted | plant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 grain | det |
| 5 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 planted | obj |
| 6 | just | just | ADV | _ | 8 front | advmod |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 front | case |
| 8 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 planted | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 house | case |
| 10 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 house | nmod:poss |
| 11 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 front | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 forgot | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 forgot | cc |
| 14 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 15 forgot | advmod |
| 15 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 planted | conj |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 15 forgot | advmod |
| 17 | about | about | ADP | _ | 19 incident | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 incident | det |
| 19 | incident | incident | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 forgot | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 planted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | past | way | the grain | front of way's house | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent grain=Theme in front=Destination | |||
| 2 | forget | past | way not said here | about the incident; all, soon property | tree rules |
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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