Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 121
The mouse scampered off across the courtyard, and the cat gave a violent start, and was on the point of pursuing it, when its training overcame its natural instincts, and it allowed the mouse to escape.
Who acts: mouse, point, training, courtyard · What happens: scamper off, give, be, pursue, overcome, allow · To what, where: mouse, courtyard, violent start, point, natural instincts
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 (mouse, point, training, courtyard), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 mouse | det |
| 2 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 3 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 mouse | acl |
| 4 | off | off | ADP | _ | 3 scampered | compound:prt |
| 5 | across | across | ADP | _ | 7 courtyard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 courtyard | det |
| 7 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 scampered | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 gave | cc |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | nsubj |
| 12 | gave | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 start | det |
| 14 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 start | amod |
| 15 | start | start | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 point | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 point | cc |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 point | cop |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 point | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 point | det |
| 21 | point | point | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 gave | obl |
| 22 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 pursuing | mark |
| 23 | pursuing | pursue | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 21 point | acl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 pursuing | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 overcame | punct |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 29 overcame | advmod |
| 27 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 training | nmod:poss |
| 28 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 overcame | nsubj |
| 29 | overcame | overcome | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 gave | conj |
| 30 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 instincts | nmod:poss |
| 31 | natural | natural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 instincts | amod |
| 32 | instincts | instinct | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 overcame | obj |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 allowed | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 allowed | cc |
| 35 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 allowed | nsubj |
| 36 | allowed | allow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 overcame | conj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 mouse | det |
| 38 | mouse | mouse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 allowed | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 escape | mark |
| 40 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 allowed | xcomp |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 gave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | scamper off | participle | the mouse not said here | the courtyard | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across courtyard=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | give | past | the mouse | a violent start | the cat nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent start=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | past | the point | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | pursue | gerund | the point not said here | courtyard | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | overcome | past | courtyard's training | courtyard's natural instincts | vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot instinct=Theme | ||||
| 6 | allow | past | courtyard | the mouse | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer mouse=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 7 | escape not said to happen | to-infinitive | the mouse not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 8 | train | courtyard | nom training «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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