Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 3

It chanced one day that he went for a walk in a large meadow, where there were a number of yellow flowers, and presently sitting down to rest, he began to gather a nosegay, when a young man passing by called out to him:

Who acts: Mussulman, Boy, young man · What happens: chance, go, sit down, rest, begin, gather · To what, where: large meadow, nosegay, Boy

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 (Mussulman, Boy, young man), 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 chanced	nsubj
2	chanced	chance	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	4 day	nummod
4	day	day	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 chanced	obl:unmarked
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 went	mark
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 went	nsubj
7	went	go	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chanced	advcl
8	for	for	ADP	_	10 walk	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	10 walk	det
10	walk	walk	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
11	in	in	ADP	_	14 meadow	case
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 meadow	det
13	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 meadow	amod
14	meadow	meadow	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 went	obl
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	18 were	punct
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	18 were	advmod
17	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	18 were	expl
18	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 meadow	acl:relcl
19	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	20 number	det
20	number	number	NOUN	Number=Sing	18 were	obj
21	of	of	ADP	_	23 flowers	case
22	yellow	yellow	ADJ	Degree=Pos	23 flowers	amod
23	flowers	flower	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 number	nmod
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sitting	punct
25	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sitting	cc
26	presently	presently	ADV	_	27 sitting	advmod
27	sitting	sit	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 chanced	advcl
28	down	down	ADV	_	27 sitting	advmod
29	to	to	PART	_	30 rest	mark
30	rest	rest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sitting	advcl
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 began	punct
32	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 began	nsubj
33	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	2 chanced	conj
34	to	to	PART	_	35 gather	mark
35	gather	gather	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 began	xcomp
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 nosegay	det
37	nosegay	nosegay	NOUN	Number=Sing	35 gather	obj
38	,	,	PUNCT	_	43 passing	punct
39	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	43 passing	advmod
40	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	42 man	det
41	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 man	amod
42	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 passing	nsubj
43	passing	pass	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	33 began	xcomp
44	by	by	SCONJ	_	45 called	mark
45	called	call	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	43 passing	acl
46	out	out	ADP	_	45 called	compound:prt
47	to	to	ADP	_	48 him	case
48	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	45 called	obl
49	:	:	PUNCT	_	2 chanced	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	chance	past	Mussulman				day		vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
2	go	past	Boy			a large meadow		for a walk	vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent for walk=Theme in meadow=Location
3	sit down	gerund	Mussulman not said here					down, presently property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	rest	to-infinitive	Mussulman not said here						vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	begin	past	Boy						vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	gather	to-infinitive	Boy not said here	a nosegay					vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent nosegay=Theme
7	pass	gerund	a young man						vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	call out speech: assert	participle			Boy				vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 3

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 3