Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 109
After several days she arrived at the house where her Husband was now employed as a servant, and, meeting him in the courtyard, she learnt from him all that had happened.
Who acts: wife, that · What happens: arrive, employ, meet, learn, happen · To what, where: house, Husband, courtyard · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, that), 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 | After | after | ADP | _ | 3 days | case |
| 2 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 days | amod |
| 3 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 arrived | obl |
| 4 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 house | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 house | det |
| 8 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | obl |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 14 employed | advmod |
| 10 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 Husband | nmod:poss |
| 11 | Husband | Husband | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 employed | nsubj:pass |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 employed | aux:pass |
| 13 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 14 employed | advmod |
| 14 | employed | employ | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 house | acl |
| 15 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 servant | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 servant | det |
| 17 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 employed | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 meeting | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 meeting | cc |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 meeting | punct |
| 21 | meeting | meet | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 arrived | advcl |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 meeting | obj |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 25 courtyard | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 courtyard | det |
| 25 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meeting | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 learnt | punct |
| 27 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 learnt | nsubj |
| 28 | learnt | learn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 arrived | conj |
| 29 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 him | case |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 learnt | obl |
| 31 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 happened | det:predet |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 34 happened | nsubj |
| 33 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 happened | aux |
| 34 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 learnt | ccomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | wife | the house | day | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | employ | past · passive | wife's Husband | now | as a servant | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: subject=Theme as servant=Attribute | |||
| 3 | meet | gerund | wife not said here | Husband | the courtyard | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | learn | past | wife | from Husband | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V PP.source how S»: agent=Agent from he=Source clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | happen | past · perfect | that | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=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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