Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 10

The young Tortoise accordingly swam to land, and after hunting about for some time in the forest he came across his father near the cave.

Who acts: young Tortoise, Tortoise · What happens: swim, land, hunt, come · To what, where: forest

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Tortoise, Tortoise), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Tortoise	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Tortoise	amod
3	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 swam	nsubj
4	accordingly	accordingly	ADV	_	5 swam	advmod
5	swam	swim	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	to	to	PART	_	7 land	mark
7	land	land	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 swam	xcomp
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 hunting	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 hunting	cc
10	after	after	SCONJ	_	11 hunting	mark
11	hunting	hunt	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	5 swam	advcl
12	about	about	ADV	_	11 hunting	advmod
13	for	for	ADP	_	15 time	case
14	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	15 time	det
15	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunting	obl
16	in	in	ADP	_	18 forest	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 forest	det
18	forest	forest	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 hunting	obl
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	20 came	nsubj
20	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	18 forest	acl:relcl
21	across	across	ADP	_	23 father	case
22	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 came	obl
24	near	near	ADP	_	26 cave	case
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 cave	det
26	cave	cave	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 father	nmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 swam	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	swim	past	the young Tortoise				accordingly property	tree rules
2	land	to-infinitive	the young Tortoise not said here					vn pocket-9.10-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	hunt	gerund	the young Tortoise not said here		the forest	time	about property	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent in forest=Location
4	come	past	Tortoise	the forest not said here			across Tortoise's father near the cave	vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location forest=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 10