Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 68
So he picked from the table a narrow-mouthed copper vessel and concealed it in his lap, and whilst eating his food he every now and then dropped into it some particularly succulent dainty, which he thought his Mother would enjoy.
Who acts: feast, succulent dainty, Mother · What happens: pick, mouth, conceal, eat, drop, think · To what, where: mouthed copper vessel, table, vessel, lap, food, succulent dainty · 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 (feast, succulent dainty, Mother), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 picked | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 picked | nsubj |
| 3 | picked | pick | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | from | from | ADP | _ | 6 table | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 table | det |
| 6 | table | table | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obl |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 vessel | det |
| 8 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 mouthed | compound |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 8 narrow | punct |
| 10 | mouthed | mouth | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 vessel | amod |
| 11 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 vessel | compound |
| 12 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 picked | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 concealed | cc |
| 14 | concealed | conceal | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 picked | conj |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 concealed | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 lap | case |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 lap | nmod:poss |
| 18 | lap | lap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 concealed | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 eating | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 eating | cc |
| 21 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 22 eating | mark |
| 22 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 picked | advcl |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 food | nmod:poss |
| 24 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 eating | obj |
| 25 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dropped | nsubj |
| 26 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 he | conj |
| 27 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 dropped | advmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 dropped | cc |
| 29 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 30 dropped | advmod |
| 30 | dropped | drop | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 eating | parataxis |
| 31 | into | into | ADP | _ | 32 it | case |
| 32 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 dropped | obl |
| 33 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 36 dainty | det |
| 34 | particularly | particularly | ADV | _ | 35 succulent | advmod |
| 35 | succulent | succulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 dainty | amod |
| 36 | dainty | dainty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 dropped | obj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 thought | punct |
| 38 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 40 thought | nsubj |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 thought | nsubj |
| 40 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 dainty | acl |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 Mother | nmod:poss |
| 42 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 enjoy | nsubj |
| 43 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 44 enjoy | aux |
| 44 | enjoy | enjoy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 thought | ccomp |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 picked | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pick | past | feast | a mouthed copper vessel | the table | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent vessel=Theme from table=Source | |||
| 2 | mouth | participle | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | conceal | past | feast not said here | vessel | feast's lap | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent it=Patient in lap=Location | |||
| 4 | eat | gerund | feast not said here | feast's food | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Patient | ||||
| 5 | drop | past | feast | some succulent dainty | food | now; then | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent dainty=Theme into it=Destination | ||
| 6 | think speech: other | past | some succulent dainty | feast nsubj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | enjoy | would | feast's Mother | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer |
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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