Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 49
It was a moonlight night, and as he rode down the road he could see his own shadow travelling along beside him.
Who acts: horseback, Boy · What happens: be, ride down, see, travel, shadow · To what, where: moonlight night, road, own shadow
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 (horseback, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 night | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 night | cop |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 night | det |
| 4 | moonlight | moonlight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 night | compound |
| 5 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 8 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 10 rode | mark |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rode | nsubj |
| 10 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | advcl |
| 11 | down | down | ADP | _ | 10 rode | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 road | det |
| 13 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rode | obj |
| 14 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 15 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 night | parataxis |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shadow | nmod:poss |
| 18 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shadow | amod |
| 19 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 see | obj |
| 20 | travelling | travel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 see | advcl |
| 21 | along | along | ADV | _ | 20 travelling | advmod |
| 22 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 23 him | case |
| 23 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 travelling | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 night | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | horseback | a moonlight night | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | ride down | past | Boy | the road | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent road=Theme | ||||
| 3 | see | could | Boy | Boy's own shadow | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer shadow=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | travel | gerund | Boy not said here | beside Boy; along property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme beside he=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | shadow | Boy | nom shadow «state transitive»: poss=agent |
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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