Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 124
It paused with great indecision, but again, its training standing it in good stead, it pursued its way towards the house.
Who acts: courtyard, training · What happens: pause, stand, pursue, train · To what, where: courtyard, good stead, way, house
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, training), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 paused | nsubj |
| 2 | paused | pause | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 indecision | case |
| 4 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 indecision | amod |
| 5 | indecision | indecision | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paused | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 again | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 8 again | cc |
| 8 | again | again | ADV | _ | 2 paused | advmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 training | punct |
| 10 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 training | nmod:poss |
| 11 | training | training | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 paused | parataxis |
| 12 | standing | stand | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 11 training | acl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 standing | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 stead | case |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 stead | amod |
| 16 | stead | stead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 standing | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 pursued | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 pursued | nsubj |
| 19 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 paused | conj |
| 20 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 way | nmod:poss |
| 21 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pursued | obj |
| 22 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 24 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 house | det |
| 24 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pursued | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 paused | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pause | past | courtyard | again | with great indecision; courtyard's training parataxis | vn linger-53.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | stand | gerund | courtyard's training not said here | courtyard | good stead | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in stead=Destination | |||
| 3 | pursue | past | courtyard | courtyard's way | the house | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent way=Theme towards house=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | 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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