Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 53

Presently he arrived in front of the Bridegroom, who had been so rude to him some days before, and the pig’s head at once became violently agitated, and kept poking itself towards this man.

Who acts: person, Bridegroom · What happens: arrive, be, become, agitate, keep, poke · To what, where: front, person, head

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (person, Bridegroom), 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	Presently	presently	ADV	_	3 arrived	advmod
2	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 arrived	nsubj
3	arrived	arrive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	in	in	ADP	_	5 front	case
5	front	front	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	obl
6	of	of	ADP	_	8 Bridegroom	case
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	8 Bridegroom	det
8	Bridegroom	Bridegroom	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 front	nmod
9	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 rude	punct
10	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	14 rude	nsubj
11	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 rude	aux
12	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	14 rude	cop
13	so	so	ADV	_	14 rude	advmod
14	rude	rude	ADJ	Degree=Pos	8 Bridegroom	acl:relcl
15	to	to	ADP	_	16 him	case
16	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 rude	obl
17	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	18 days	det
18	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 before	obl:unmarked
19	before	before	ADV	_	3 arrived	advmod
20	,	,	PUNCT	_	25 head	punct
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	25 head	cc
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 pig	det
23	pig	pig	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 head	nmod:poss
24	’s	's	PART	_	23 pig	case
25	head	head	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 arrived	conj
26	at	at	SCONJ	_	28 became	mark
27	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	28 became	advmod
28	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arrived	advcl
29	violently	violently	ADV	_	30 agitated	advmod
30	agitated	agitate	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	28 became	xcomp
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 kept	punct
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 kept	cc
33	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 arrived	conj
34	poking	poke	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 kept	xcomp
35	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	34 poking	obj
36	towards	towards	ADP	_	38 man	case
37	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	38 man	det
38	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 poking	obl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 arrived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	arrive	past	person			front of the Bridegroom	the pig's head conj; before, presently property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	is	past · perfect	the Bridegroom		person		rude property	tree rules
3	become	past	person not said here				once property	tree rules
4	agitate	participle	person not said here				violently property	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5	keep	past	person not said here					tree rules
6	poke	gerund	person not said here	head			towards this man	vn poke-19-1-1-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent itself=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 53

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Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 53