Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 6
Shortly after the poor man coming into his house saw the young Sparrow lying helpless on his door-step, so he picked it up to see what was wrong, and found that its leg was broken.
Who acts: poor man, young Sparrow, Sparrows · What happens: come, see, lie, pick up, be, find · To what, where: house, young Sparrow, step, leg · 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 (poor man, young Sparrow, Sparrows), 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 | Shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 10 saw | advmod |
| 2 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 10 saw | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 man | det |
| 4 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 man | amod |
| 5 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | nsubj |
| 6 | coming | come | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 man | acl |
| 7 | into | into | ADP | _ | 9 house | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 house | nmod:poss |
| 9 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 coming | obl |
| 10 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Sparrow | det |
| 12 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 Sparrow | amod |
| 13 | Sparrow | sparrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 saw | obj |
| 14 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Sparrow | acl |
| 15 | helpless | helpless | ADV | _ | 14 lying | advmod |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 step | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 step | nmod:poss |
| 18 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 step | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 door | punct |
| 20 | step | step | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 lying | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 picked | punct |
| 22 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 picked | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 picked | nsubj |
| 24 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 picked | obj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 picked | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 see | mark |
| 28 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 picked | advcl |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 31 wrong | nsubj |
| 30 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 wrong | cop |
| 31 | wrong | wrong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 see | ccomp |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 found | punct |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 found | cc |
| 34 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 saw | conj |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 39 broken | mark |
| 36 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 leg | nmod:poss |
| 37 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 broken | nsubj:pass |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 broken | aux:pass |
| 39 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 found | ccomp |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | gerund | the poor man not said here | Sparrows's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the poor man | the young Sparrow | shortly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer sparrow=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | lie | gerund | the young Sparrow not said here | on Sparrows's door step; helpless property | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on step=Location | ||||
| 4 | pick up | past | Sparrows | step | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Topic | ||||
| 5 | see | to-infinitive | Sparrows not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | is | past | what nsubj; wrong property | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | find | past | the poor man not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 8 | break | past · passive | step's leg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 9 | step | Sparrows | nom step «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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