Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 35
On reaching the top of the tree he began reviling the Tortoise, and calling out every bad name he could think of.
Who acts: Tortoise · What happens: reach, begin, revile, call out, think · To what, where: top, Tortoise, bad name
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 (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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 reaching | mark |
| 2 | reaching | reach | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 began | advcl |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 top | det |
| 4 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 reaching | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 tree | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 tree | det |
| 7 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 top | nmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 began | nsubj |
| 9 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | reviling | revile | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 9 began | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tortoise | det |
| 12 | Tortoise | Tortoise | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 reviling | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 calling | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 calling | cc |
| 15 | calling | call | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 began | xcomp |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 15 calling | compound:prt |
| 17 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 name | det |
| 18 | bad | bad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 name | amod |
| 19 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 calling | obj |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 think | nsubj |
| 21 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 think | aux |
| 22 | think | think | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 calling | parataxis |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 think | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reach | gerund | Tortoise not said here | the top of the tree | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent top=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | Tortoise | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | revile | gerund | Tortoise not said here | the Tortoise | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tortoise=Theme | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | gerund | Tortoise not said here | every bad name | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent name=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | think speech: other | could | Tortoise | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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