Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 108
So she disguised herself as a man, and taking with her a few ponies laden with wool, she started off to follow in the tracks of her Husband.
Who acts: wife, few ponies · What happens: disguise, take, laden, start off, follow · To what, where: wife, tracks
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 (wife, few ponies), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 disguised | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 disguised | nsubj |
| 3 | disguised | disguise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | herself | herself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 disguised | obj |
| 5 | as | as | ADP | _ | 7 man | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 disguised | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 taking | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 taking | cc |
| 10 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 disguised | advcl |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 12 her | case |
| 12 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 taking | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 ponies | det |
| 14 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 ponies | amod |
| 15 | ponies | pony | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 laden | nsubj |
| 16 | laden | laden | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 taking | parataxis |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 wool | case |
| 18 | wool | wool | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 laden | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 started | punct |
| 20 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 started | nsubj |
| 21 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 disguised | conj |
| 22 | off | off | ADP | _ | 21 started | compound:prt |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 follow | mark |
| 24 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 started | xcomp |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 tracks | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 tracks | det |
| 27 | tracks | track | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 follow | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 Husband | case |
| 29 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 Husband | nmod:poss |
| 30 | Husband | husband | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 tracks | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 disguised | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | disguise | past | wife | wife | as a man | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent herself=Destination | |||
| 2 | take | gerund | wife not said here | with wife | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | laden | present | a few ponies | with wool | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | start off | past | wife | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | follow | to-infinitive | wife not said here | the tracks of wife's Husband | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme in track=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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