Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 71

The young Man was still hungry, but was obliged to refuse all their offers, saying that he had already eaten enough.

Who acts: young Man, man, parents · What happens: be, oblige, refuse, say, eat, offer · To what, where: offers · 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 (young Man, man, 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Man	det
2	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 Man	amod
3	Man	Man	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 hungry	nsubj
4	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 hungry	cop
5	still	still	ADV	_	6 hungry	advmod
6	hungry	hungry	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 obliged	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	10 obliged	cc
9	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 obliged	aux:pass
10	obliged	oblige	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	6 hungry	conj
11	to	to	PART	_	12 refuse	mark
12	refuse	refuse	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 obliged	xcomp
13	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 offers	det:predet
14	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	15 offers	nmod:poss
15	offers	offer	NOUN	Number=Plur	12 refuse	obj
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 saying	punct
17	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	12 refuse	advcl
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	22 eaten	mark
19	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	22 eaten	nsubj
20	had	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	22 eaten	aux
21	already	already	ADV	_	22 eaten	advmod
22	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	17 saying	ccomp
23	enough	enough	ADV	_	22 eaten	advmod
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 hungry	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the young Man		still	hungry property	tree rules
2	oblige	past · passive	the young Man not said here				vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: clause=Result
3	refuse	to-infinitive	the young Man not said here	parents's offers			vn reject-77.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent offer=Theme
4	say speech: assert	gerund	the young Man not said here				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	eat	past · perfect	man			enough property	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	offer		parents = parent				nom offer «communication 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.

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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 71

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 71