Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 123
This time it was all the cat could do to refrain from following so tempting an opportunity.
Who acts: courtyard, time · What happens: be, do, refrain, follow, tempt · To what, where: cat, opportunity
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 (courtyard, time), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 time | det |
| 2 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 do | nsubj |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 cat | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cat | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 7 cat | det:predet |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 cat | det |
| 7 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 time | acl:relcl |
| 8 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 do | aux |
| 9 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 refrain | mark |
| 11 | refrain | refrain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 do | xcomp |
| 12 | from | from | SCONJ | _ | 13 following | mark |
| 13 | following | follow | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 refrain | advcl |
| 14 | so | so | ADV | _ | 15 tempting | advmod |
| 15 | tempting | tempt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 do | advcl |
| 16 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 opportunity | det |
| 17 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 tempting | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | courtyard | all cat | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | could | this time | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | refrain | to-infinitive | this time not said here | vn refrain-69 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | follow | gerund | this time not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | tempt | gerund | this time not said here | a opportunity | vn urge-58.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Recipient |
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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