Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 17

His two brothers and his mother tried to reason with him and to persuade him to remember the words of his dying father, but with no avail; and finally, one fine morning, in spite of their prayers and entreaties, he set off alone on his search.

Who acts: two brothers, neighbourhood, brothers · What happens: try, persuade, remember, die, set off, word · To what, where: neighbourhood, words, search, dying father, prayers

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two brothers, neighbourhood, brothers), 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	His	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	3 brothers	nmod:poss
2	two	two	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	3 brothers	nummod
3	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 tried	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 mother	cc
5	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 mother	nmod:poss
6	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 brothers	conj
7	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 reason	case
9	reason	reason	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tried	obl
10	with	with	ADP	_	11 him	case
11	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 reason	nmod
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 persuade	cc
13	to	to	PART	_	14 persuade	mark
14	persuade	persuade	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 tried	conj
15	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	14 persuade	obj
16	to	to	PART	_	17 remember	mark
17	remember	remember	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 persuade	xcomp
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 words	det
19	words	word	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 remember	obj
20	of	of	ADP	_	23 father	case
21	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 father	nmod:poss
22	dying	die	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	23 father	amod
23	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 words	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 avail	punct
25	but	but	CCONJ	_	28 avail	cc
26	with	with	ADP	_	28 avail	case
27	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	28 avail	det
28	avail	avail	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 persuade	obl
29	;	;	PUNCT	_	35 morning	punct
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	35 morning	cc
31	finally	finally	ADV	_	35 morning	advmod
32	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 finally	punct
33	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	35 morning	nummod
34	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 morning	amod
35	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 tried	obl:unmarked
36	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 spite	punct
37	in	in	ADP	_	38 spite	case
38	spite	spite	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 morning	conj
39	of	of	ADP	_	41 prayers	case
40	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	41 prayers	nmod:poss
41	prayers	prayer	NOUN	Number=Plur	38 spite	nmod
42	and	and	CCONJ	_	43 entreaties	cc
43	entreaties	entreaty	NOUN	Number=Plur	41 prayers	conj
44	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 set	punct
45	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 set	nsubj
46	set	set	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 tried	conj
47	off	off	ADP	_	46 set	compound:prt
48	alone	alone	ADV	_	46 set	advmod
49	on	on	ADP	_	51 search	case
50	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	51 search	nmod:poss
51	search	search	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 set	obl
52	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 tried	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	try	past	neighbourhood's two brothers and neighbourhood's mother			morning	to reason with neighbourhood	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
2	persuade	to-infinitive	neighbourhood's two brothers and neighbourhood's mother not said here	neighbourhood			with no avail	vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Patient clause=Result
3	remember	to-infinitive	neighbourhood not said here	the words of neighbourhood's dying father				vn characterize-29.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent word=Theme
4	die	gerund						vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
5	set off	past	neighbourhood		neighbourhood's search		alone property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	word			neighbourhood's dying father				nom word «communication transitive»: of=patient
7	spite			brothers's prayers and entreaties				nom spite «feeling transitive»: of=patient
8	pray		brothers = brother					nom prayer «act intransitive»: poss=agent
9	search		neighbourhood					nom search «act transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 17

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 17