Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 53
When Tse-ring returned from his journey he walked over to the school-house one day to see how his Son was getting on, and he found Cham-ba seated there teaching the boys their lessons.
Who acts: Tse ring, father, Son · What happens: return, walk over, see, get on, find, seat · To what, where: journey, Cham ba, lessons, boys · 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 (Tse ring, father, Son), 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 | When | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 returned | advmod |
| 2 | Tse | Tse | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 ring | compound |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tse | punct |
| 4 | ring | ring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | nsubj |
| 5 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 walked | advcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 journey | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 journey | nmod:poss |
| 8 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 returned | obl |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 walked | nsubj |
| 10 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | over | over | ADV | _ | 10 walked | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 house | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 house | det |
| 14 | school | school | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | compound |
| 15 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 14 school | punct |
| 16 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 walked | obl |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | nummod |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 house | obl:unmarked |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 see | mark |
| 20 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 walked | advcl |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 getting | advmod |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 Son | nmod:poss |
| 23 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 getting | nsubj |
| 24 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 getting | aux |
| 25 | getting | get | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 see | ccomp |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 getting | compound:prt |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 found | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 found | cc |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 found | nsubj |
| 30 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 walked | conj |
| 31 | Cham | Cham | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 ba | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 Cham | punct |
| 33 | ba | ba | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 found | obj |
| 34 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 33 ba | acl |
| 35 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 34 seated | advmod |
| 36 | teaching | teach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 seated | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 boys | det |
| 38 | boys | boy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 teaching | obj |
| 39 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 lessons | nmod:poss |
| 40 | lessons | lesson | NOUN | Number=Plur | 36 teaching | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 walked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | participle | Tse ring | father's journey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from journey=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | walk over | past | father | to the school house one day; over property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | father not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | get on | past · progressive | father's Son | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | find | past | father | Cham ba | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ba=Topic | ||||
| 6 | seat | participle | Cham ba not said here | there | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: agent=Location | ||||
| 7 | teach speech: other | gerund | ba's lessons | the boys | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient lesson=Topic | ||||
| 8 | journey | father | 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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