Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 56
So thinking that the shade of the tree was the safest place to stay in, he climbed into the upper branches and very soon fell fast asleep.
Who acts: Boy, shade · What happens: think, be, stay in, climb, fall, shade · To what, where: safest place, upper branches, tree
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, shade), 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 | 18 climbed | advcl |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 place | mark |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 shade | det |
| 5 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 place | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shade | nmod |
| 9 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 place | cop |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 place | det |
| 11 | safest | safe | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 12 place | amod |
| 12 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thinking | ccomp |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 stay | mark |
| 14 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 place | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADV | _ | 14 stay | advmod |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 thinking | punct |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 climbed | nsubj |
| 18 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 branches | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 branches | det |
| 21 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 branches | amod |
| 22 | branches | branch | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 climbed | obl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 fell | cc |
| 24 | very | very | ADV | _ | 25 soon | advmod |
| 25 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 fell | advmod |
| 26 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 climbed | conj |
| 27 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 fell | advmod |
| 28 | asleep | asleep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 fell | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 climbed | 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 focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | the shade of the tree | the safest place | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | stay in | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | climb | past | Boy | the upper branches | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into branch=Destination | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | Boy not said here | asleep, fast, soon property | vn occur-48.3 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | shade | the 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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