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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 35

So saying, the Stranger seized upon the rich man’s house, his cattle, his sheep, his lands, and all his possessions, and reduced the rich man to the position of a slave in his household.

Who acts: Stranger · What happens: say, seize, reduce, possess · To what, where: cattle, rich man, position · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Stranger), 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

advmodpunctdetnsubjccompcasedetamodnmod:posscaseoblpunctnmod:possoblpunctnmod:possconjpunctnmod:possconjpunctccdet:predetnmod:possoblpunctccconjdetamodobjcasedetoblcasedetnmodcasenmod:possnmodpunctrootSoADVsayingVERB,PUNCTtheDETStrangerNOUNseizedVERBuponADPtheDETrichADJmanNOUN’sPARThouseNOUN,PUNCThisPRONcattleNOUN,PUNCThisPRONsheepNOUN,PUNCThisPRONlandsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJallDEThisPRONpossessionsNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJreducedVERBtheDETrichADJmanNOUNtoADPtheDETpositionNOUNofADPaDETslaveNOUNinADPhisPRONhouseholdNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_2 sayingadvmod
2sayingsayVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Partrootroot
3,,PUNCT_6 seizedpunct
4thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art5 Strangerdet
5StrangerstrangerNOUNNumber=Sing6 seizednsubj
6seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sayingccomp
7uponuponADP_12 housecase
8thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 mandet
9richrichADJDegree=Pos10 manamod
10manmanNOUNNumber=Sing12 housenmod:poss
11’s'sPART_10 mancase
12househouseNOUNNumber=Sing6 seizedobl
13,,PUNCT_15 cattlepunct
14hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs15 cattlenmod:poss
15cattlecattleNOUNNumber=Plur2 sayingobl
16,,PUNCT_18 sheeppunct
17hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs18 sheepnmod:poss
18sheepsheepNOUNNumber=Plur15 cattleconj
19,,PUNCT_21 landspunct
20hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs21 landsnmod:poss
21landslandNOUNNumber=Plur15 cattleconj
22,,PUNCT_26 possessionspunct
23andandCCONJ_26 possessionscc
24allallDETPronType=Tot26 possessionsdet:predet
25hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs26 possessionsnmod:poss
26possessionspossessionNOUNNumber=Plur2 sayingobl
27,,PUNCT_29 reducedpunct
28andandCCONJ_29 reducedcc
29reducedreduceVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin2 sayingconj
30thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art32 mandet
31richrichADJDegree=Pos32 manamod
32manmanNOUNNumber=Sing29 reducedobj
33totoADP_35 positioncase
34thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art35 positiondet
35positionpositionNOUNNumber=Sing29 reducedobl
36ofofADP_38 slavecase
37aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art38 slavedet
38slaveslaveNOUNNumber=Sing35 positionnmod
39ininADP_41 householdcase
40hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs41 householdnmod:poss
41householdhouseholdNOUNNumber=Sing38 slavenmod
42..PUNCT_2 sayingpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertgerundstranger's cattle and stranger's sheep and stranger's landsstranger's possessions oblvn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2seizepastthe Strangerupon the rich man's housevn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3reducepastthe rich manto the position of a slave in stranger's household goalvn limit-76 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer man=Patient to position=Goal
4possessstrangernom possession «act 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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