Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 20
The young Tortoise accordingly proceeded to hunt out his father again, and as soon as he met him he gave him Mrs. Tortoise’s message.
Who acts: young Tortoise, Tortoise · What happens: proceed, hunt out, meet, give · To what, where: father, message
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 proceeded | nsubj |
| 4 | accordingly | accordingly | ADV | _ | 5 proceeded | advmod |
| 5 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 hunt | mark |
| 7 | hunt | hunt | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 proceeded | xcomp |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 hunt | compound:prt |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 father | nmod:poss |
| 10 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hunt | obj |
| 11 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 hunt | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 gave | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 gave | cc |
| 14 | as | as | ADV | _ | 15 soon | advmod |
| 15 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 gave | advmod |
| 16 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 met | mark |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 met | nsubj |
| 18 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 soon | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 met | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | nsubj |
| 21 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 proceeded | conj |
| 22 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 gave | iobj |
| 23 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 message | nmod:poss |
| 24 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Mrs. | flat |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 23 Mrs. | case |
| 26 | message | message | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 gave | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | the young Tortoise | accordingly property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | hunt out | to-infinitive | the young Tortoise not said here | Tortoise's father | again | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Theme | |||
| 3 | meet | past | Tortoise | father | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | give | past | Tortoise | Mrs.'s message | father | soon property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient message=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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