Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 32
The Boy tried to explain how it occurred, but the Servant would not listen, and dragged him off by force into the King’s presence.
Who acts: Boy, jar, Servant · What happens: try, explain, occur, not listen, drag off · To what, where: Boy, presence · 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, jar, Servant), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 tried | nsubj |
| 3 | tried | try | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 explain | mark |
| 5 | explain | explain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 tried | xcomp |
| 6 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 8 occurred | advmod |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 occurred | nsubj |
| 8 | occurred | occur | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 explain | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 listen | punct |
| 10 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 15 listen | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Servant | det |
| 12 | Servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 listen | nsubj |
| 13 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 listen | aux |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 listen | advmod |
| 15 | listen | listen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 explain | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 dragged | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 dragged | cc |
| 18 | dragged | drag | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 tried | conj |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 dragged | obj |
| 20 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 dragged | compound:prt |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 force | case |
| 22 | force | force | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dragged | obl |
| 23 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 presence | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 King | det |
| 25 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 presence | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 King | case |
| 27 | presence | presence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 dragged | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 tried | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | past | the Boy | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | explain speech: assert not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Boy not said here | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | occur | past | jar | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not listen | would | the Servant | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | drag off | past | the Boy not said here | Boy | the King's presence | by force | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme |
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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