Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 18
Soon after this the rich Neighbour, having observed the change which had taken place in the poor man’s circumstances, came over one day in order to try and find out how Cham-ba had become so rich and prosperous.
Who acts: rich Neighbour, Cham ba · What happens: observe, take, come over, try, find out, become · To what, where: change, order
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 (rich Neighbour, Cham ba), 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 | Soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 23 came | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | ADP | _ | 3 this | case |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 1 Soon | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Neighbour | det |
| 5 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Neighbour | amod |
| 6 | Neighbour | Neighbour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 came | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 observed | punct |
| 8 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 observed | aux |
| 9 | observed | observe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 Neighbour | acl |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 change | det |
| 11 | change | change | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 observed | obj |
| 12 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 taken | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 taken | aux |
| 14 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 change | acl:relcl |
| 15 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 taken | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 21 circumstances | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 man | det |
| 18 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 man | amod |
| 19 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 circumstances | nmod:poss |
| 20 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 19 man | case |
| 21 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 place | nmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Neighbour | punct |
| 23 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 24 | over | over | ADV | _ | 25 one | advmod |
| 25 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 day | nummod |
| 26 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl:unmarked |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 order | case |
| 28 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 came | obl |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 try | mark |
| 30 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 came | advcl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 find | cc |
| 32 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 try | conj |
| 33 | out | out | ADP | _ | 32 find | compound:prt |
| 34 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 become | advmod |
| 35 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 ba | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 Cham | punct |
| 37 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 become | nsubj |
| 38 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 become | aux |
| 39 | become | become | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 find | advcl |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 rich | advmod |
| 41 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 become | xcomp |
| 42 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 prosperous | cc |
| 43 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 41 rich | conj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | observe | gerund · perfect | the rich Neighbour not said here | the change | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent change=Topic | ||||
| 2 | take | past · perfect · passive | the change | place obj | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: subject=Theme place=Destination | ||||
| 3 | come over | past | the rich Neighbour | order | day | soon property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in order=Location | ||
| 4 | try | to-infinitive | the rich Neighbour not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | find out | infinitive | the rich Neighbour not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.topic»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | become | past · perfect | Cham ba | rich property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient |
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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