Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 67

During the progress of the feast the young Mussulman, who was of a very kindly disposition, and very fond of his Mother, kept thinking to himself how he could save something nice for her to eat from amongst so much plenty.

Who acts: young Mussulman, feast · What happens: be, keep, think, save, eat, progress · To what, where: feast, something, plenty, amongst

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 (young Mussulman, feast), 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	During	during	ADP	_	3 progress	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 progress	det
3	progress	progress	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 kept	obl
4	of	of	ADP	_	6 feast	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 feast	det
6	feast	feast	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 progress	nmod
7	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 Mussulman	det
8	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Mussulman	amod
9	Mussulman	Mussulman	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 kept	nsubj
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 disposition	punct
11	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	17 disposition	nsubj
12	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 disposition	cop
13	of	of	ADP	_	17 disposition	case
14	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 disposition	det
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 kindly	advmod
16	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	17 disposition	advmod
17	disposition	disposition	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 Mussulman	appos
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 fond	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 fond	cc
20	very	very	ADV	_	21 fond	advmod
21	fond	fond	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 disposition	appos
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Mother	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 Mother	nmod:poss
24	Mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 fond	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 Mussulman	punct
26	kept	keep	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	thinking	think	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 save	advcl
28	to	to	ADP	_	29 himself	case
29	himself	himself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	27 thinking	obl
30	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	33 save	advmod
31	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 save	nsubj
32	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 save	aux
33	save	save	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 kept	advcl
34	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	33 save	obj
35	nice	nice	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 something	amod
36	for	for	ADP	_	37 her	case
37	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 save	obl
38	to	to	PART	_	39 eat	mark
39	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 save	advcl
40	from	from	ADP	_	41 amongst	case
41	amongst	amongst	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eat	obl
42	so	so	ADV	_	43 much	advmod
43	much	much	ADV	_	44 plenty	advmod
44	plenty	plenty	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 eat	obl
45	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 kept	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young Mussulman					of a disposition; kindly property	tree rules
2	keep	past	the young Mussulman				during the progress of the feast		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3	think speech: other	gerund	feast not said here		feast				vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	save	could	feast	something				for mother	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent something=Theme for she=Beneficiary
5	eat	to-infinitive	feast not said here	plenty		amongst			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V PP.source»: agent=Agent from amongst=Source
6	progress		the feast						nom progress «act intransitive»: of=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 67

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 67