Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 38
Not knowing what to do he filled the bag with sand, and awaited his Neighbour’s return with some trepidation.
Who acts: stranger, Neighbour · What happens: not know, do, fill, await, return · To what, where: bag, return
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, Neighbour), 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 | Not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 2 knowing | advmod |
| 2 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 filled | advcl |
| 3 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 5 do | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 do | mark |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 knowing | xcomp |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 filled | nsubj |
| 7 | filled | fill | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 bag | det |
| 9 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 filled | obj |
| 10 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 sand | case |
| 11 | sand | sand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 bag | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 awaited | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 awaited | cc |
| 14 | awaited | await | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 filled | conj |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 Neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 16 | Neighbour | Neighbour | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 return | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Neighbour | case |
| 18 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 awaited | obj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 trepidation | case |
| 20 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 trepidation | det |
| 21 | trepidation | trepidation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 awaited | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 filled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not know | gerund | stranger not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | do | to-infinitive | stranger not said here | what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 3 | fill | past | stranger | the bag | with sand | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent bag=Patient with sand=Instrument | |||
| 4 | await | past | stranger not said here | stranger's Neighbour's return | with some trepidation | tree rules | |||
| 5 | return | stranger's Neighbour | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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