Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 30
And thus thinking he stamped his foot so violently that the jar of oil slipped off his back and was smashed to pieces on the ground.
Who acts: nonsense, jar · What happens: think, stamp, slip off, smash · To what, where: foot, back
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 (nonsense, jar), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 stamped | cc |
| 2 | thus | thus | ADV | _ | 3 thinking | advmod |
| 3 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 stamped | advcl |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 stamped | nsubj |
| 5 | stamped | stamp | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 foot | nmod:poss |
| 7 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 stamped | obj |
| 8 | so | so | ADV | _ | 9 violently | advmod |
| 9 | violently | violently | ADV | _ | 5 stamped | advmod |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 slipped | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 jar | det |
| 12 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slipped | nsubj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 oil | case |
| 14 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jar | nmod |
| 15 | slipped | slip | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 stamped | advcl |
| 16 | off | off | ADP | _ | 15 slipped | compound:prt |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 back | nmod:poss |
| 18 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 slipped | obj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 smashed | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 smashed | aux:pass |
| 21 | smashed | smash | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 slipped | conj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 pieces | case |
| 23 | pieces | piece | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 smashed | obl |
| 24 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 ground | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 ground | det |
| 26 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 pieces | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 stamped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | nonsense not said here | thus property | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | stamp | past | nonsense | nonsense's foot | violently property | vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination | |||
| 3 | slip off | past | the jar of oil | nonsense's back | vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent back=Patient | ||||
| 4 | smash | past · passive | the jar of oil not said here | to pieces on the ground result | vn break-45.1 «NP V PP.result»: to piece=Result |
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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