Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 26
So the Monkey mounted upon the Tortoise’s back, and the Tortoise set out to swim to his house.
Who acts: Monkey, Tortoise · What happens: mount, set out, swim · To what, where: back, house
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 (Monkey, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 mounted | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Monkey | det |
| 3 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | nsubj |
| 4 | mounted | mount | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 9 back | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tortoise | det |
| 7 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 back | nmod:poss |
| 8 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 7 Tortoise | case |
| 9 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mounted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 set | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 set | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Tortoise | det |
| 13 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 set | nsubj |
| 14 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 mounted | conj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 set | compound:prt |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 swim | mark |
| 17 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 set | xcomp |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 house | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 house | nmod:poss |
| 20 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 swim | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 mounted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount | past | the Monkey | the Tortoise's back | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon back=Destination | ||||
| 2 | set out | past | the Tortoise | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | swim | to-infinitive | the Tortoise not said here | Tortoise's house | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme to house=Destination |
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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