Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 57
A short while after a party of travellers happened to be passing by this road from the same direction, and as they came along they were surprised to find a number of garments scattered about the roadway.
Who acts: short while, travellers · What happens: happen, pass, come along, be, find, scatter · To what, where: same direction, number, garments
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 (short while, travellers), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 while | det |
| 2 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 while | amod |
| 3 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 happened | nsubj |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 6 party | case |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 party | det |
| 6 | party | party | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 while | nmod |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 travellers | case |
| 8 | travellers | traveller | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 party | nmod |
| 9 | happened | happen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 passing | mark |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 passing | aux |
| 12 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 happened | advcl |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 road | case |
| 14 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 road | det |
| 15 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passing | obl |
| 16 | from | from | ADP | _ | 19 direction | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 direction | det |
| 18 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 direction | amod |
| 19 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 passing | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 surprised | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 surprised | cc |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 came | mark |
| 23 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 came | nsubj |
| 24 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 surprised | advcl |
| 25 | along | along | ADV | _ | 24 came | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 surprised | nsubj |
| 27 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 surprised | cop |
| 28 | surprised | surprised | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 happened | parataxis |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 find | mark |
| 30 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 surprised | advcl |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 number | det |
| 32 | number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 find | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 garments | case |
| 34 | garments | garment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 number | nmod |
| 35 | scattered | scatter | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 34 garments | acl |
| 36 | about | about | ADP | _ | 38 roadway | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 roadway | det |
| 38 | roadway | roadway | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 scattered | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 happened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen | past | a short while after a party of travellers | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | pass | to-infinitive · progressive | a short while after a party of travellers not said here | the same direction | by this road | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by road=Location | |||
| 3 | come along | past | travellers = traveller | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | past | travellers = traveller | surprised property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | travellers = traveller not said here | a number of garments | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent number=Topic | ||||
| 6 | scatter | participle | garments not said here | about the roadway | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V PP.destination»: agent=Theme about roadway=Destination |
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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