Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 63
They thought it must certainly be a demon, who lived in the tree, and who wanted his share of the spoils, so they took to their heels and made off as fast as they could, leaving the horse and all the clothes behind them.
Who acts: travellers, voice, demon · What happens: think, be, live, want, spoil, take · To what, where: demon, tree, share, horse · 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 (travellers, voice, demon), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 thought | nsubj |
| 2 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 demon | nsubj |
| 4 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 demon | aux |
| 5 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 8 demon | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 demon | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 demon | det |
| 8 | demon | demon | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 thought | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lived | punct |
| 10 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 lived | nsubj |
| 11 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 demon | acl:relcl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 tree | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 tree | det |
| 14 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lived | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wanted | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 wanted | cc |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 wanted | nsubj |
| 18 | wanted | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 thought | parataxis |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 share | nmod:poss |
| 20 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wanted | obj |
| 21 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 23 spoils | mark |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 spoils | det |
| 23 | spoils | spoil | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 share | advcl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 took | punct |
| 25 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 took | advmod |
| 26 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 took | nsubj |
| 27 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 wanted | conj |
| 28 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 heels | case |
| 29 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 heels | nmod:poss |
| 30 | heels | heel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 took | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 took | conj |
| 33 | off | off | ADP | _ | 32 made | compound:prt |
| 34 | as | as | ADV | _ | 35 fast | advmod |
| 35 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 32 made | advmod |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 could | mark |
| 37 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 could | nsubj |
| 38 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 fast | advcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 leaving | punct |
| 40 | leaving | leave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 32 made | advcl |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 horse | det |
| 42 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 leaving | obj |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 clothes | cc |
| 44 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 46 clothes | det:predet |
| 45 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 46 clothes | det |
| 46 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 40 leaving | conj |
| 47 | behind | behind | ADP | _ | 48 them | case |
| 48 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 46 clothes | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | travellers = traveller | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | must | voice | a demon | certainly property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | live | past | a demon | the tree | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in tree=Location | ||||
| 4 | want | past | demon's share | who nsubj | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot share=Theme | ||||
| 5 | spoil | present | vn entity_specific_cos-45.5 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 6 | take | past | travellers = traveller | to travellers's heels result | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to heel=Result | ||||
| 7 | make off | participle | travellers = traveller not said here | fast property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | ||||
| 8 | leave | gerund | travellers = traveller not said here | the horse | all clothes behind travellers conj | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Theme | |||
| 9 | share | demon | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/7/63/