Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 53
As this produced no effect, he followed up the puggaree with his cloak, and, finally, with all the clothes he had on, but without in any way frightening the shadow, which still continued to follow him closely.
Who acts: this, Boy · What happens: produce, follow up, have on, continue, follow · To what, where: effect, puggaree, clothes, shadow, 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 (this, 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 | As | as | SCONJ | _ | 3 produced | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 produced | nsubj |
| 3 | produced | produce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 5 effect | det |
| 5 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 produced | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 followed | punct |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 followed | nsubj |
| 8 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 produced | conj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 8 followed | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 puggaree | det |
| 11 | puggaree | puggaree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 followed | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 cloak | case |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 cloak | nmod:poss |
| 14 | cloak | cloak | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 puggaree | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 frightening | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 frightening | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 finally | punct |
| 18 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 33 frightening | advmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 clothes | punct |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 clothes | case |
| 21 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 clothes | det:predet |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 clothes | det |
| 23 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 18 finally | conj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 had | nsubj |
| 25 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 clothes | acl:relcl |
| 26 | on | on | ADV | _ | 25 had | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 frightening | punct |
| 28 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 33 frightening | cc |
| 29 | without | without | ADP | _ | 32 way | case |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 way | case |
| 31 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 32 way | det |
| 32 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 frightening | obl |
| 33 | frightening | frightening | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 produced | conj |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 shadow | det |
| 35 | shadow | shadow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 frightening | nsubj |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 continued | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 39 continued | obj |
| 38 | still | still | ADV | _ | 39 continued | advmod |
| 39 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 35 shadow | acl:relcl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 follow | mark |
| 41 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 continued | xcomp |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 follow | obj |
| 43 | closely | closely | ADV | _ | 41 follow | advmod |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 produced | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | past | this | no effect | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent effect=Result | ||||
| 2 | follow up | past | Boy | the puggaree | with Boy's cloak | tree rules | |||
| 3 | have on | past | Boy | all clothes not said here | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent clothes=Patient | ||||
| 4 | continue | past | the shadow | still | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | follow | to-infinitive | Boy | closely property | vn chase-51.6 «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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