Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 70
In this awkward predicament he was unable to eat anything, and the Bride’s parents noticing that he no longer partook of any food, kept pressing him to have a little more.
Who acts: feast, parents · What happens: be, eat, notice, partake, keep, press · To what, where: awkward predicament, anything, feast, more
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, parents), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 predicament | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 predicament | det |
| 3 | awkward | awkward | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 predicament | amod |
| 4 | predicament | predicament | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 unable | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 unable | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 unable | cop |
| 7 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 eat | mark |
| 9 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 unable | xcomp |
| 10 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 eat | obj |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 noticing | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 noticing | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Bride | det |
| 14 | Bride | Bride | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 parents | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Bride | case |
| 16 | parents | parent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 noticing | nsubj |
| 17 | noticing | notice | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 unable | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 partook | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 partook | nsubj |
| 20 | no | no | ADV | _ | 21 longer | advmod |
| 21 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 22 partook | advmod |
| 22 | partook | partake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 unable | advcl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 food | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 25 food | det |
| 25 | food | food | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 partook | obl |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 kept | punct |
| 27 | kept | keep | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 partook | conj |
| 28 | pressing | press | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 27 kept | xcomp |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 pressing | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 have | mark |
| 31 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 pressing | advcl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 little | det |
| 33 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 more | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 have | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | feast | this awkward predicament | unable property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | feast not said here | anything | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent anything=Patient | ||||
| 3 | notice | gerund | the Bride's parents | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | partake | past | feast | of any food; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | keep | past | feast not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | press | gerund | feast not said here | feast | vn push-12-1-1 «NP V NP ADJP-Result»: agent=Agent he=Result | ||||
| 7 | have | to-infinitive | feast not said here | more | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent more=Patient |
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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