Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 58
So they picked them up as they came along, and presently they found a horse grazing beside the road.
Who acts: travellers · What happens: pick up, come along, find · To what, where: garments, horse grazing, road
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 picked | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | obj |
| 5 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 picked | compound:prt |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 came | mark |
| 7 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 came | nsubj |
| 8 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | advcl |
| 9 | along | along | ADV | _ | 8 came | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 found | cc |
| 12 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 14 found | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 grazing | det |
| 16 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 grazing | compound |
| 17 | grazing | grazing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obj |
| 18 | beside | beside | ADP | _ | 20 road | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 road | det |
| 20 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 found | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick up | past | travellers = traveller | garments = garment | vn discover-84-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic | ||||
| 2 | come along | past | travellers = traveller | along property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | find | past | travellers = traveller | a horse grazing | the road | presently property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent grazing=Topic |
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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