Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 16
As they went along, he kept thinking to himself what he should do with his hen when he got it.
Who acts: Servants, Boy · What happens: go along, keep, think, do, get · To what, where: Boy, jar · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Servants, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 went | mark |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 kept | advcl |
| 4 | along | along | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kept | nsubj |
| 7 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | thinking | think | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 7 kept | xcomp |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 himself | case |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 thinking | obl |
| 11 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 14 do | obj |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 do | nsubj |
| 13 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | aux |
| 14 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 thinking | ccomp |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 hen | case |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 hen | nmod:poss |
| 17 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 do | obl |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 20 got | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 got | nsubj |
| 20 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 do | advcl |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 got | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 kept | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go along | past | Servants = servant | along property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | keep | past | Boy | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | think speech: other | gerund | Boy not said here | Boy | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | do | should | Boy | with Boy's hen; what obj | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | get | past | Boy | jar | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus |
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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