Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 34

The Servant replied that he had entrusted the Boy with a jar of oil intended for the King, and as they were walking along the road quite quietly together, the Boy all of a sudden began to stamp his feet like a maniac, and the jar of oil slipped off his back and got broken.

Who acts: Servant, King, Servants, all, jar · What happens: reply, entrust, intend, walk, begin, stamp · To what, where: Boy, oil, road, feet, back · 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 (Servant, King, Servants, all), 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 Servant	det
2	Servant	Servant	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 replied	nsubj
3	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	that	that	SCONJ	_	7 entrusted	mark
5	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	7 entrusted	nsubj
6	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 entrusted	aux
7	entrusted	entrust	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	3 replied	ccomp
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Boy	det
9	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 entrusted	obj
10	with	with	ADP	_	12 jar	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	12 jar	det
12	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 entrusted	obl
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 oil	case
14	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 jar	nmod
15	intended	intend	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 oil	acl
16	for	for	ADP	_	18 King	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 King	det
18	King	King	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 intended	obl
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	33 Boy	punct
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 Boy	cc
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	24 walking	mark
22	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	24 walking	nsubj
23	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	24 walking	aux
24	walking	walk	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 Boy	advcl
25	along	along	ADP	_	27 road	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 road	det
27	road	road	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 walking	obl
28	quite	quite	ADV	_	29 quietly	advmod
29	quietly	quietly	ADV	_	24 walking	advmod
30	together	together	ADV	_	24 walking	advmod
31	,	,	PUNCT	_	24 walking	punct
32	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	33 Boy	det
33	Boy	Boy	PROPN	Number=Sing	38 began	obl
34	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	38 began	nsubj
35	of	of	ADP	_	37 sudden	case
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	37 sudden	det
37	sudden	sudden	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 all	nmod
38	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	parataxis
39	to	to	PART	_	40 stamp	mark
40	stamp	stamp	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 began	xcomp
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	42 feet	nmod:poss
42	feet	foot	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 stamp	obj
43	like	like	ADP	_	45 maniac	case
44	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	45 maniac	det
45	maniac	maniac	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 stamp	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	52 slipped	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	52 slipped	cc
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	49 jar	det
49	jar	jar	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 slipped	nsubj
50	of	of	ADP	_	51 oil	case
51	oil	oil	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 jar	nmod
52	slipped	slip	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 replied	parataxis
53	off	off	ADP	_	52 slipped	compound:prt
54	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	55 back	nmod:poss
55	back	back	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 slipped	obj
56	and	and	CCONJ	_	57 got	cc
57	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	52 slipped	conj
58	broken	break	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	57 got	xcomp
59	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	reply speech: assert	past	the Servant					vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	entrust	past · perfect	King		the Boy		with a jar of oil	vn fulfilling-13.4.1-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent boy=Recipient with jar=Theme
3	intend	participle		oil not said here			for the King	vn intend-61.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	walk	past · progressive	Servants = servant			the road	quietly, together property	vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory
5	begin	past	all of a sudden	the Boy				vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
6	stamp	to-infinitive	all of a sudden not said here	King's feet			like a maniac	vn image_impression-25.1 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent foot=Destination
7	slip off	past	the jar of oil	King's back				vn split-23.2 «NP V NP apart»: agent=Agent back=Patient
8	get	past	the jar of oil not said here					vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
9	break	participle	the jar of oil not said here					vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=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 34

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 34