Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 106

Sure enough, just at dusk a large white cat entered the sitting-room, holding a lighted lantern in its mouth, and the unfortunate young Man was obliged to hand over to his Host everything he possessed in the world; and finding himself without money or goods he decided to stay on in the house as a servant.

Who acts: dusk, cat · What happens: enter, hold, light, oblige, hand over, possess · To what, where: sitting room, lighted lantern, mouth, unfortunate young Man, everything, world

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 (dusk, cat), 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	Sure	sure	ADV	_	11 entered	advmod
2	enough	enough	ADV	_	1 Sure	advmod
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Sure	punct
4	just	just	ADV	_	6 dusk	advmod
5	at	at	ADP	_	6 dusk	case
6	dusk	dusk	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	nsubj
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 cat	det
8	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cat	amod
9	white	white	ADJ	Degree=Pos	10 cat	amod
10	cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	nsubj
11	entered	enter	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 room	det
13	sitting	sitting	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 room	compound
14	-	-	PUNCT	_	13 sitting	punct
15	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 entered	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 holding	punct
17	holding	hold	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	11 entered	advcl
18	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 lantern	det
19	lighted	light	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 lantern	amod
20	lantern	lantern	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 holding	obj
21	in	in	ADP	_	23 mouth	case
22	its	its	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 mouth	nmod:poss
23	mouth	mouth	NOUN	Number=Sing	20 lantern	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 obliged	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 obliged	cc
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	29 Man	det
27	unfortunate	unfortunate	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Man	amod
28	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 Man	amod
29	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	31 obliged	nsubj
30	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	31 obliged	aux:pass
31	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	11 entered	conj
32	to	to	PART	_	33 hand	mark
33	hand	hand	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 obliged	xcomp
34	over	over	ADP	_	33 hand	compound:prt
35	to	to	ADP	_	38 everything	case
36	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	38 everything	nmod:poss
37	Host	host	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 everything	compound
38	everything	everything	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Tot	33 hand	obl
39	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 possessed	nsubj
40	possessed	possess	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 everything	acl:relcl
41	in	in	ADP	_	43 world	case
42	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	43 world	det
43	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 possessed	obl
44	;	;	PUNCT	_	45 and	punct
45	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 entered	cc
46	finding	find	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	45 and	advcl
47	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	46 finding	obj
48	without	without	ADP	_	49 money	case
49	money	money	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 finding	obl
50	or	or	CCONJ	_	51 goods	cc
51	goods	goods	NOUN	Number=Ptan	49 money	conj
52	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 decided	nsubj
53	decided	decide	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 money	acl:relcl
54	to	to	PART	_	55 stay	mark
55	stay	stay	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	53 decided	xcomp
56	on	on	ADP	_	55 stay	compound:prt
57	in	in	ADP	_	59 house	case
58	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 house	det
59	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 stay	obl
60	as	as	ADP	_	62 servant	case
61	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	62 servant	det
62	servant	servant	NOUN	Number=Sing	55 stay	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	11 entered	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	enter	past	dusk	the sitting room		a large white cat nsubj; sure property	vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme room=Destination
2	hold	gerund	dusk not said here	a lighted lantern	lantern's mouth		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent lantern=Theme in mouth=Location
3	light	participle					vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
4	oblige	past · passive		the unfortunate young Man			vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
5	hand over	to-infinitive			everything		vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent to everything=Destination
6	possess	past	cat		the world		vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot
7	find	gerund	dusk not said here	cat		without money or goods	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic
8	decide	past	cat	money or goods not said here			vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V PP.co-agent that S»: agent=Agent money=Co-Agent clause=Topic
9	stay on not said to happen	to-infinitive	cat not said here		the house	as a servant	vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in house=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 106

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 106