Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 17
Now it happened that in that country there lived a Mussulman, who made his living as a barber and by paring people’s nails.
Who acts: it, country, Mussulman · What happens: happen, live, make, pare · To what, where: Mussulman, living, nails
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (it, country, Mussulman), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 happened | advmod |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 happened | nsubj |
| 3 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 lived | mark |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 country | case |
| 6 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 country | det |
| 7 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | nsubj |
| 8 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 country | advmod |
| 9 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 happened | advcl |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Mussulman | det |
| 11 | Mussulman | Mussulman | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 lived | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 made | punct |
| 13 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 made | nsubj |
| 14 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Mussulman | acl:relcl |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 living | nmod:poss |
| 16 | living | living | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obj |
| 17 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 barber | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 barber | det |
| 19 | barber | barber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 made | obl |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 paring | cc |
| 21 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 22 paring | mark |
| 22 | paring | pare | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 made | conj |
| 23 | people | people | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 nails | nmod:poss |
| 24 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 people | case |
| 25 | nails | nail | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 paring | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | it | now | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | live | past | that country | a Mussulman | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme mussulman=Location | ||||
| 3 | make | past | a Mussulman | country's living | as a barber | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent living=Product | |||
| 4 | pare | gerund | a Mussulman not said here | people's nails | vn disassemble-23.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nail=Patient | ||||
| 5 | live | country | nom living «cognition intransitive»: 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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