Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 7
So he carried it into the house, and very carefully bound up its leg with a piece of thread; and then took it up to the roof, and put it back in the nest.
Who acts: leg · What happens: carry, bind up, take up, put back · To what, where: step, house, leg, roof, nest
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 (leg), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 carried | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | nsubj |
| 3 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 carried | obj |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 house | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 house | det |
| 7 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 carried | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 bound | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 bound | cc |
| 10 | very | very | ADV | _ | 11 carefully | advmod |
| 11 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 12 bound | advmod |
| 12 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 carried | conj |
| 13 | up | up | ADP | _ | 12 bound | compound:prt |
| 14 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 leg | nmod:poss |
| 15 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 piece | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 piece | det |
| 18 | piece | piece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 bound | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 thread | case |
| 20 | thread | thread | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 piece | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 took | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 took | cc |
| 23 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 24 took | advmod |
| 24 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 carried | conj |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 took | obj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 24 took | compound:prt |
| 27 | to | to | ADP | _ | 29 roof | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 roof | det |
| 29 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 took | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 put | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 put | cc |
| 32 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 took | advcl |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 put | obj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 32 put | advmod |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 37 nest | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 nest | det |
| 37 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 put | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 carried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | carry | past | leg | step | the house | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | |||
| 2 | bind up | participle | leg not said here | step's leg | with a piece of thread; carefully property | vn shake-22.3-2-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent leg=Patient with piece=Co-Patient | |||
| 3 | take up | past | leg not said here | step | the roof | then | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to roof=Destination | ||
| 4 | put back | infinitive | leg not said here | step | the nest | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in nest=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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