Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 39
A few days after Cham-ba came back from his journey, and called upon his Neighbour, and asked for his bag of gold.
Who acts: few days, stranger · What happens: come back, call, ask, journey · To what, where: journey · 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 (few days, 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 days | det |
| 2 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 came | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 7 ba | case |
| 5 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 ba | compound |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cham | punct |
| 7 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 days | nmod |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | back | back | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | from | from | ADP | _ | 12 journey | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 journey | nmod:poss |
| 12 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 called | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 called | cc |
| 15 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 came | advcl |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 Neighbour | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 Neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 18 | Neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 called | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 asked | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 asked | cc |
| 21 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | parataxis |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 bag | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 bag | nmod:poss |
| 24 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 asked | obl |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 gold | case |
| 26 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 bag | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come back | past | a few days after Cham ba | stranger's journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | call | participle | a few days after Cham ba not said here | upon stranger's Neighbour | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | past | for stranger's bag of gold | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | journey | stranger | nom journey «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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