Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 105

Now this was a regular trick of the Landlord’s, who had a tame cat which had been taught to carry in a lantern in her mouth every evening just at dusk, and he was accustomed to practise this deceit upon unwary travellers, and by this means to secure their goods and whatever property they possessed.

Who acts: this, regular trick, tame cat, goods · What happens: be, have, teach, carry, accustom, practise · To what, where: regular trick, tame cat, lantern, cat, deceit, goods

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 (this, regular trick, tame cat, goods), 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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 trick	advmod
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 trick	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trick	cop
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	6 trick	det
5	regular	regular	ADJ	Degree=Pos	6 trick	amod
6	trick	trick	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
7	of	of	ADP	_	9 Landlord	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Landlord	det
9	Landlord	Landlord	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 trick	nmod
10	’s	's	PART	_	9 Landlord	case
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 had	punct
12	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	13 had	nsubj
13	had	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 trick	parataxis
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	16 cat	det
15	tame	tame	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 cat	amod
16	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 had	obj
17	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 taught	nsubj:pass
18	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 taught	aux
19	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	20 taught	aux:pass
20	taught	teach	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	16 cat	acl:relcl
21	to	to	PART	_	22 carry	mark
22	carry	carry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 taught	xcomp
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 lantern	case
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 lantern	det
25	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carry	obl
26	in	in	ADP	_	28 mouth	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	28 mouth	nmod:poss
28	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carry	obl
29	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	30 evening	det
30	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carry	obl:unmarked
31	just	just	ADV	_	33 dusk	advmod
32	at	at	ADP	_	33 dusk	case
33	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 carry	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 accustomed	punct
35	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 accustomed	cc
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 accustomed	nsubj
37	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 accustomed	aux:pass
38	accustomed	accustom	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 taught	conj
39	to	to	PART	_	40 practise	mark
40	practise	practise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 accustomed	xcomp
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	42 deceit	det
42	deceit	deceit	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 practise	obj
43	upon	upon	ADP	_	45 travellers	case
44	unwary	unwary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 travellers	amod
45	travellers	traveller	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 practise	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	50 means	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	50 means	cc
48	by	by	ADP	_	49 this	case
49	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	50 means	nsubj
50	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 had	parataxis
51	to	to	PART	_	52 secure	mark
52	secure	secure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 means	xcomp
53	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	54 goods	nmod:poss
54	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	52 secure	obj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 property	cc
56	whatever	whatever	DET	PronType=Int	57 property	det
57	property	property	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 secure	conj
58	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 possessed	nsubj
59	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 property	acl:relcl
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 trick	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	past	this	a regular trick		now	of the Landlord	tree rules
2	have	past	a regular trick	a tame cat				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient
3	teach speech: other	past · perfect · passive		a tame cat				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Recipient clause=Topic
4	carry	to-infinitive	a tame cat not said here		a lantern	dusk; evening	in Landlord's mouth	vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in lantern=Location
5	accustom	past · passive		cat				tree rules
6	practise	to-infinitive		this deceit			upon unwary travellers	tree rules
7	mean	present	this					vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
8	secure not said to happen	to-infinitive	this not said here	travellers's goods			whatever property conj	vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition goods=Theme
9	possess	past	goods	whatever property not said here				vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot property=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, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 105