Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 47
Cham-ba said nothing more, but carried off the bag to his own house.
Who acts: Cham ba · What happens: say, carry off · To what, where: nothing, bag, own house · 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 (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 | Cham | cham | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 ba | compound |
| 2 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 1 Cham | punct |
| 3 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 4 said | obj |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 4 said | advmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 carried | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 9 carried | cc |
| 9 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 carried | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 bag | det |
| 12 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obj |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 house | nmod:poss |
| 15 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 house | amod |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 carried | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Cham ba | nothing | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent nothing=Topic | ||||
| 2 | carry off | past | Cham ba not said here | the bag | stranger's own house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent bag=Theme to house=Destination |
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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