Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 59
Him, too, they brought along with them, and when they arrived in the shade of the poplar-tree, they all stopped and sat down on the ground to divide the spoil amongst them.
Who acts: travellers · What happens: bring along, arrive, stop, sit down, divide, shade · To what, where: shade, ground, spoil, poplar 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 (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 | Him | him | INTJ | _ | 6 brought | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Him | punct |
| 3 | too | too | ADV | _ | 1 Him | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Him | punct |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | nsubj |
| 6 | brought | bring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | along | along | ADV | _ | 6 brought | advmod |
| 8 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 them | case |
| 9 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 brought | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 stopped | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 stopped | cc |
| 12 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 14 arrived | advmod |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 arrived | nsubj |
| 14 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stopped | advcl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 shade | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 shade | det |
| 17 | shade | shade | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 arrived | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 tree | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 tree | det |
| 20 | poplar | poplar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 tree | compound |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 20 poplar | punct |
| 22 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 shade | nmod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 arrived | punct |
| 24 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 stopped | nsubj |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 26 stopped | advmod |
| 26 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 brought | parataxis |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 sat | cc |
| 28 | sat | sit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 stopped | conj |
| 29 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 sat | compound:prt |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 ground | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 ground | det |
| 32 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sat | obl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 divide | mark |
| 34 | divide | divide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sat | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 spoil | det |
| 36 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 divide | obj |
| 37 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 divide | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 brought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bring along | past | travellers = traveller | with garments = garment; along property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | arrive | past | travellers = traveller | the shade of the poplar tree | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | stop | past | travellers = traveller | all property | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | sit down | past | travellers = traveller not said here | the ground | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on ground=Location | ||||
| 5 | divide | to-infinitive | travellers = traveller not said here | the spoil | amongst travellers = traveller | vn multiply-108-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent spoil=Theme | |||
| 6 | shade | the 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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