Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 15
So the foolish Boy got up out of his grave, and taking the jar of oil on his back, he walked along the road with the King’s Servant towards the palace.
Who acts: foolish Boy, Boy · What happens: get up, take, walk · To what, where: grave, jar, back, palace
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 (foolish Boy, Boy), 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 | _ | 5 got | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Boy | det |
| 3 | foolish | foolish | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Boy | amod |
| 4 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 got | nsubj |
| 5 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 got | compound:prt |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 grave | case |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 grave | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 grave | nmod:poss |
| 10 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 got | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 taking | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 taking | cc |
| 13 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 got | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 jar | det |
| 15 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 oil | case |
| 17 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 jar | nmod |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 back | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 back | nmod:poss |
| 20 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 taking | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 walked | punct |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 walked | nsubj |
| 23 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 got | conj |
| 24 | along | along | ADP | _ | 26 road | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 road | det |
| 26 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walked | obl |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Servant | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 King | det |
| 29 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 Servant | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 King | case |
| 31 | Servant | Servant | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 road | nmod |
| 32 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 34 palace | case |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 palace | det |
| 34 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 walked | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 got | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | get up | past | the foolish Boy | Boy's grave | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme out grave=Destination | ||||
| 2 | take | gerund | the foolish Boy not said here | the jar of oil | Boy's back | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent jar=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 3 | walk | past | Boy | the palace | along the road with the King's Servant | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme towards palace=Destination |
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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