Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 36
Some months after, Cham-ba, now rich and prosperous, started off on a journey, and before going he asked Tse-ring to take charge of a bag of gold-dust for him, and to keep it until he returned.
Who acts: months, stranger · What happens: start off, go, ask, take, keep, return · To what, where: journey, Tse ring, charge, bag · 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 (months, 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 2 months | det |
| 2 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 started | nsubj |
| 3 | after | after | ADV | _ | 2 months | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 ba | punct |
| 5 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ba | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cham | punct |
| 7 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 months | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 rich | punct |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 rich | advmod |
| 10 | rich | rich | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 ba | amod |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 prosperous | cc |
| 12 | prosperous | prosperous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 rich | conj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 months | punct |
| 14 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 14 started | compound:prt |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 journey | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 journey | det |
| 18 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 started | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 asked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 asked | cc |
| 21 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 22 going | mark |
| 22 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 asked | advcl |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 asked | nsubj |
| 24 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 started | conj |
| 25 | Tse | Tse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 ring | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 25 Tse | punct |
| 27 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 asked | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 take | mark |
| 29 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 asked | ccomp |
| 30 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 take | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 bag | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 bag | det |
| 33 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 charge | nmod |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 dust | case |
| 35 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 dust | compound |
| 36 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 35 gold | punct |
| 37 | dust | dust | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 bag | nmod |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 take | obl |
| 40 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 keep | punct |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 keep | cc |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 keep | mark |
| 43 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 take | conj |
| 44 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 keep | obj |
| 45 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 47 returned | mark |
| 46 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 returned | nsubj |
| 47 | returned | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 keep | advcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | some months and Cham ba | a journey | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | go | gerund | stranger not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | stranger | Tse ring | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent ring=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | charge of a bag of gold dust | for stranger | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent charge=Theme for he=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | keep | to-infinitive | charge | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||||
| 6 | return | past | stranger | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | charge | a bag of gold dust | nom charge «act transitive»: of=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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