Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 60
Just then the Boy woke up, and looking down he saw what was going on below, so he called out in a loud voice:
Who acts: Boy · What happens: wake up, look down, see, go on, call out · To what, where: loud voice · 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), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 5 woke | advmod |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 woke | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 Boy | det |
| 4 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 woke | nsubj |
| 5 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 5 woke | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 saw | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 saw | cc |
| 9 | looking | look | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 saw | advcl |
| 10 | down | down | ADP | _ | 9 looking | compound:prt |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 saw | nsubj |
| 12 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 woke | conj |
| 13 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 15 going | nsubj |
| 14 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 going | aux |
| 15 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 saw | ccomp |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 15 going | compound:prt |
| 17 | below | below | ADV | _ | 15 going | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
| 19 | so | so | ADV | _ | 21 called | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | nsubj |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 woke | conj |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 called | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 voice | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 voice | det |
| 25 | loud | loud | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 voice | amod |
| 26 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | obl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 5 woke | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wake up | past | the Boy | then | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | look down | gerund | Boy not said here | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | see | past | Boy | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | go on | past · progressive | what nsubj; below property | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | call out speech: assert | participle | Boy | a loud voice | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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