Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 44
When his usual bedtime arrived, he came to the mouth of the cave and, looking in, he called out in a loud voice:
Who acts: usual bedtime, bedtime · What happens: arrive, come, look in, call out · To what, where: mouth, loud voice
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 (usual bedtime, bedtime), 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 | When | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 arrived | mark |
| 2 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 bedtime | nmod:poss |
| 3 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 bedtime | amod |
| 4 | bedtime | bedtime | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 arrived | nsubj |
| 5 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | advcl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 arrived | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 mouth | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 mouth | det |
| 11 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 came | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 cave | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 cave | det |
| 14 | cave | cave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 mouth | nmod |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 looking | cc |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 looking | punct |
| 17 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 came | conj |
| 18 | in | in | ADV | _ | 17 looking | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | nsubj |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 came | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 called | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 voice | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 voice | det |
| 25 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 voice | amod |
| 26 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 8 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | arrive | past | Tortoise's usual bedtime | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | come | past | bedtime | the mouth of the cave | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to mouth=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | look in | gerund | bedtime not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | past | bedtime | a loud voice | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «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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