Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 19
So next evening, when the procession started as usual, Rambé marched along in front, and Ambé took up his position last of all.
Who acts: procession, Rambé, Ambé · What happens: start, march, take up · To what, where: front, position
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (procession, Rambé, Ambé), 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 | _ | 13 marched | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 evening | amod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marched | obl:unmarked |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 started | punct |
| 5 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 started | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 procession | det |
| 7 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 started | nsubj |
| 8 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 evening | conj |
| 9 | as | as | ADP | _ | 10 usual | case |
| 10 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 started | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 evening | punct |
| 12 | Rambé | Rambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 marched | nsubj |
| 13 | marched | march | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | along | along | ADV | _ | 13 marched | advmod |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 front | case |
| 16 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 marched | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 took | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 took | cc |
| 19 | Ambé | Ambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 took | nsubj |
| 20 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 marched | conj |
| 21 | up | up | ADP | _ | 20 took | compound:prt |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 position | nmod:poss |
| 23 | position | position | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 took | obj |
| 24 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 took | conj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 all | case |
| 26 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 last | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 marched | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start | past | the procession | as usual | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | march | past | Rambé | front | evening | along property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | ||
| 3 | take up | past | Ambé | procession's position | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent position=Theme |
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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