Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 54
So thinking to give it the slip, he jumped off his horse and ran along the road on foot, until he got into the shade of a big poplar-tree growing near the road-side.
Who acts: Boy, big poplar tree · What happens: think, give, jump off, run, get, grow · To what, where: puggaree, horse, foot, shade, road side, big poplar tree · 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, big poplar tree), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 thinking | advmod |
| 2 | thinking | think | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 jumped | advcl |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 give | mark |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 thinking | ccomp |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 give | obj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slip | det |
| 7 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinking | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 jumped | nsubj |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | off | off | ADP | _ | 10 jumped | compound:prt |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 horse | nmod:poss |
| 13 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | obj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 ran | cc |
| 15 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | conj |
| 16 | along | along | ADP | _ | 18 road | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 road | det |
| 18 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 foot | case |
| 20 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 ran | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 got | punct |
| 22 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 got | mark |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 got | nsubj |
| 24 | got | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | conj |
| 25 | into | into | ADP | _ | 27 shade | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 shade | det |
| 27 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 got | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 tree | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 tree | det |
| 30 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 tree | amod |
| 31 | poplar | poplar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 tree | compound |
| 32 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 31 poplar | punct |
| 33 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 shade | nmod |
| 34 | growing | grow | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 tree | acl |
| 35 | near | near | ADP | _ | 39 side | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 side | det |
| 37 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 side | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 road | punct |
| 39 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 growing | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | gerund | Boy not said here | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | give | to-infinitive | puggaree | the slip obj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient slip=Theme | ||||
| 3 | jump off | past | Boy | Boy's horse | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Agent | ||||
| 4 | run | past | Boy not said here | foot | along the road | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme along road=Trajectory | |||
| 5 | get | past | Boy | the shade of a big poplar tree | vn escape-51.1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme into shade=Destination | ||||
| 6 | grow | gerund | a big poplar tree not said here | the road side | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near side=Location | ||||
| 7 | shade | a big poplar tree | nom shade «state transitive»: of=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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