Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 42
So he hid himself in the water until evening, and as soon as it was dusk he came out on the land and proceeded very quietly to the cave where he and the Monkey had lived together, and concealed himself in the darkest corner of it waiting till the Monkey should come in.
Who acts: Tortoise, water, darkest corner, Monkey · What happens: hide, be, come out, proceed, live together, conceal · To what, where: Tortoise, water, land, darkest corner
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, water, darkest corner, Monkey), 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 | _ | 3 hid | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 hid | nsubj |
| 3 | hid | hide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 hid | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 water | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 water | det |
| 7 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obl |
| 8 | until | until | ADP | _ | 9 evening | case |
| 9 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hid | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 came | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 came | cc |
| 12 | as | as | ADV | _ | 13 soon | advmod |
| 13 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 19 came | advmod |
| 14 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 dusk | case |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 dusk | nsubj |
| 16 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 dusk | cop |
| 17 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 soon | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 came | nsubj |
| 19 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hid | conj |
| 20 | out | out | ADV | _ | 19 came | advmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 land | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 land | det |
| 23 | land | land | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 came | obl |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 proceeded | cc |
| 25 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hid | conj |
| 26 | very | very | ADV | _ | 27 quietly | advmod |
| 27 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 25 proceeded | advmod |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 cave | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 cave | det |
| 30 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 proceeded | obl |
| 31 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 37 lived | advmod |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 37 lived | nsubj |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 Monkey | cc |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 Monkey | det |
| 35 | Monkey | Monkey | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 he | conj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 lived | aux |
| 37 | lived | live | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 cave | acl:relcl |
| 38 | together | together | ADV | _ | 37 lived | advmod |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 concealed | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 concealed | cc |
| 41 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hid | parataxis |
| 42 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 41 concealed | obj |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 46 corner | case |
| 44 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 corner | det |
| 45 | darkest | dark | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 46 corner | amod |
| 46 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 concealed | obl |
| 47 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 it | case |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 corner | nmod |
| 49 | waiting | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 46 corner | acl |
| 50 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 54 come | mark |
| 51 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 52 Monkey | det |
| 52 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 54 come | nsubj |
| 53 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 54 come | aux |
| 54 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 49 waiting | advcl |
| 55 | in | in | ADV | _ | 54 come | advmod |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hide | past | Tortoise | Tortoise | the water | evening | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in water=Location | ||
| 2 | is | past | water | as dusk | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | come out | past | Tortoise | the land | out, soon property | vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient | |||
| 4 | proceed | past | Tortoise not said here | to the cave; quietly property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | live together | past · perfect | Tortoise | together property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | conceal | past | Tortoise | the darkest corner of water | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent himself=Patient in corner=Location | ||||
| 7 | wait | gerund | the darkest corner of water not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | come in | should | the Monkey | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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