Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 2

As the Boy grew up, it was found that he was rather weak-minded, and that he was continually getting himself into scrapes, owing to his own folly and carelessness; and the naughty boys of the neighbourhood used to take advantage of the poor young fellow, and were constantly teasing him and telling him all sorts of absurd stories.

Who acts: Boy · What happens: grow up, find, be, get, owe, use · To what, where: Mussulman, Boy, scrapes, own folly, neighbourhood, advantage · 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 (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	_	4 grew	mark
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Boy	det
3	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	4 grew	nsubj
4	grew	grow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	advcl
5	up	up	ADP	_	4 grew	compound:prt
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 grew	punct
7	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 found	nsubj:pass
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 found	aux:pass
9	found	find	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
10	that	that	SCONJ	_	16 minded	mark
11	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	16 minded	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 minded	cop
13	rather	rather	ADV	_	16 minded	advmod
14	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	16 minded	amod
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 weak	punct
16	minded	minded	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 found	xcomp
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 getting	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 getting	cc
19	that	that	SCONJ	_	23 getting	mark
20	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 getting	nsubj
21	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	23 getting	aux
22	continually	continually	ADV	_	23 getting	advmod
23	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 found	parataxis
24	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	23 getting	obj
25	into	into	ADP	_	26 scrapes	case
26	scrapes	scrape	NOUN	Number=Plur	23 getting	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 owing	punct
28	owing	owe	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	23 getting	conj
29	to	to	ADP	_	32 folly	case
30	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 folly	nmod:poss
31	own	own	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 folly	amod
32	folly	folly	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 owing	obl
33	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 carelessness	cc
34	carelessness	carelessness	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 folly	conj
35	;	;	PUNCT	_	39 boys	punct
36	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 boys	cc
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	39 boys	det
38	naughty	naughty	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 boys	amod
39	boys	boy	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 found	parataxis
40	of	of	ADP	_	42 neighbourhood	case
41	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 neighbourhood	det
42	neighbourhood	neighbourhood	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 boys	nmod
43	used	use	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	42 neighbourhood	acl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 take	mark
45	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	43 used	advcl
46	advantage	advantage	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 take	obj
47	of	of	ADP	_	51 fellow	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	51 fellow	det
49	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 fellow	amod
50	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 fellow	amod
51	fellow	fellow	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 advantage	nmod
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	56 teasing	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	56 teasing	cc
54	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	56 teasing	aux
55	constantly	constantly	ADV	_	56 teasing	advmod
56	teasing	tease	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	39 boys	parataxis
57	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	56 teasing	obj
58	and	and	CCONJ	_	59 telling	cc
59	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	56 teasing	conj
60	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	59 telling	iobj
61	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	62 sorts	det
62	sorts	sort	NOUN	Number=Plur	59 telling	obj
63	of	of	ADP	_	65 stories	case
64	absurd	absurd	ADJ	Degree=Pos	65 stories	amod
65	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	62 sorts	nmod
66	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 found	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	grow up	past	the Boy					vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	find	past · passive		Mussulman			the naughty boys of the neighbourhood parataxis	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: subject=Topic
3	is	past	Boy				minded property	tree rules
4	get	past · progressive	Boy	Boy		scrapes	continually property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer himself=Stimulus
5	owe	gerund	Boy not said here				to Boy's own folly and carelessness goal	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent to folly=Goal
6	use	participle		the neighbourhood not said here				vn eat-39.1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
7	take	to-infinitive		advantage of the poor young fellow				vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme
8	tease	past · progressive		Boy			constantly property	vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
9	tell speech: assert	gerund		all sorts of absurd stories	Boy			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient sort=Topic
10	sort			absurd stories				nom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 2

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 2