Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 64
The Boy then climbed down from the tree, put on his own clothes, and, mounting his horse, rode off to his Bride’s house.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: climb down, put, mount, ride off · To what, where: tree, own clothes, horse, house
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Boy | det |
| 2 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | nsubj |
| 3 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 climbed | advmod |
| 4 | climbed | climb | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | down | down | ADV | _ | 4 climbed | advmod |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 tree | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 tree | det |
| 8 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 climbed | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 put | punct |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tree | acl |
| 11 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 clothes | case |
| 12 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 13 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 clothes | amod |
| 14 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 10 put | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mounting | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 mounting | cc |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 mounting | punct |
| 18 | mounting | mount | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 climbed | advcl |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 horse | nmod:poss |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 mounting | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 rode | punct |
| 22 | rode | ride | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 climbed | conj |
| 23 | off | off | ADP | _ | 22 rode | compound:prt |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 26 | Bride | Bride | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 house | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Bride | case |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 rode | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 climbed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb down | past | the Boy | the tree | then | down property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme from tree=Trajectory | ||
| 2 | put | participle | the tree not said here | Boy's own clothes | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent on clothes=Destination | ||||
| 3 | mount | gerund | the Boy not said here | Boy's horse | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ride off | past | the Boy not said here | horse's house | vn nonvehicle-51.4.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent to house=Trajectory |
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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