Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 49
A few days later he found it necessary to make a short journey to a neighbouring town, and before starting he entrusted his little Son to his neighbour, Cham-ba, and asked him to look after the boy until his return.
Who acts: education · What happens: find, make, neighbour, start, entrust, ask · To what, where: intention, short journey, little Son, neighbour, education
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 (education), 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 | 4 later | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 found | advmod |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | nsubj |
| 6 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 found | obj |
| 8 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 found | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 make | mark |
| 10 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 necessary | advcl |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 journey | det |
| 12 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 journey | amod |
| 13 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 make | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 town | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 town | det |
| 16 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 town | amod |
| 17 | town | town | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 journey | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 entrusted | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 entrusted | cc |
| 20 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 21 starting | mark |
| 21 | starting | start | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 entrusted | advcl |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 entrusted | nsubj |
| 23 | entrusted | entrust | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 Son | nmod:poss |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 Son | amod |
| 26 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 entrusted | obj |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 neighbour | case |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 neighbour | nmod:poss |
| 29 | neighbour | neighbour | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 entrusted | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 ba | punct |
| 31 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 ba | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Cham | punct |
| 33 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 neighbour | conj |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 asked | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 asked | cc |
| 36 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 found | conj |
| 37 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 asked | iobj |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 look | mark |
| 39 | look | look | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 asked | xcomp |
| 40 | after | after | ADP | _ | 42 boy | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 boy | det |
| 42 | boy | boy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 look | obl |
| 43 | until | until | ADP | _ | 45 return | case |
| 44 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 return | nmod:poss |
| 45 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 look | obl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | education | intention | late, necessary property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | |||
| 2 | make | to-infinitive | education not said here | a short journey | to a neighbouring town | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset journey=Product | |||
| 3 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | start | gerund | education not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | entrust | past | education | education's little Son | education's neighbour and Cham ba | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent son=Theme to neighbour=Recipient | |||
| 6 | ask speech: ask | past | education not said here | education | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 7 | look not said to happen | to-infinitive | education not said here | after the boy; until education's return | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 8 | return | education | 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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