Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 16
A month or two later the grain grew, and soon attained its full height; and one day the poor man, going to look at it, was astonished to find that, instead of grain, each ear of corn contained a valuable jewel.
Who acts: grain, poor man · What happens: grow, attain, go, look, be, find · To what, where: full height, that, valuable jewel
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 (grain, poor man), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 month | det |
| 2 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 later | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 4 two | cc |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 month | conj |
| 5 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 8 grew | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grain | det |
| 7 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 grew | nsubj |
| 8 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 attained | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 attained | cc |
| 11 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 12 attained | advmod |
| 12 | attained | attain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | conj |
| 13 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 height | nmod:poss |
| 14 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 height | amod |
| 15 | height | height | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 attained | obj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 going | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 going | cc |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 day | nummod |
| 19 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 going | obl:unmarked |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 going | nsubj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 going | punct |
| 24 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 grew | advcl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 look | mark |
| 26 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 going | xcomp |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 28 it | case |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 look | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 astonished | punct |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 astonished | cop |
| 31 | astonished | astonished | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 grew | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 find | mark |
| 33 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 astonished | xcomp |
| 34 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 find | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 grain | punct |
| 36 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 38 grain | case |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 instead | fixed |
| 38 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 contained | nsubj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 ear | punct |
| 40 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 ear | det |
| 41 | ear | ear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 grain | conj |
| 42 | of | of | ADP | _ | 43 corn | case |
| 43 | corn | corn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 ear | nmod |
| 44 | contained | contain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 grew | parataxis |
| 45 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 jewel | det |
| 46 | valuable | valuable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 jewel | amod |
| 47 | jewel | jewel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 contained | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the grain | late property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | attain | past | the grain not said here | grain's full height | soon property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent height=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | gerund | the poor man | day | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | look | to-infinitive | the poor man not said here | at grain | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent at it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the grain not said here | astonished property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | find | to-infinitive | the grain not said here | that | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent that=Topic | ||||
| 7 | contain | past | grain and each ear of corn | a valuable jewel | vn comprise-107.2-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot jewel=Theme |
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/pg75000/5/16/