Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 1

There was once a young Mussulman, who lived with his poor mother in a small cottage on the outskirts of a large town.

Who acts: young Mussulman · What happens: be, live

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (young Mussulman), 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	There	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	2 was	expl
2	was	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	2 was	advmod
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 Mussulman	det
5	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 Mussulman	amod
6	Mussulman	Mussulman	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 was	parataxis
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 lived	punct
8	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 lived	nsubj
9	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 Mussulman	acl:relcl
10	with	with	ADP	_	13 mother	case
11	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 mother	nmod:poss
12	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 mother	amod
13	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 lived	obl
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 cottage	case
15	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 cottage	det
16	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 cottage	amod
17	cottage	cottage	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 mother	nmod
18	on	on	ADP	_	20 outskirts	case
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 outskirts	det
20	outskirts	outskirt	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 cottage	nmod
21	of	of	ADP	_	24 town	case
22	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 town	det
23	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 town	amod
24	town	town	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 outskirts	nmod
25	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 was	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	be	past				there		a young Mussulman parataxis; once property	vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	live	past	a young Mussulman					with his poor mother in a small cottage on the outskirts of a large town	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with mother=Location

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 Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 1

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 1