Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 72
Towards evening, when the feast was completed, the guests withdrew, and the Boy was left alone with his Bride; and she began asking him what the matter was, and why he had been behaving so strangely during the banquet.
Who acts: guests, Bride, matter, feast · What happens: complete, withdraw, leave, begin, ask, be · To what, where: Towards evening, Boy, feast · 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 (guests, Bride, matter, 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 | Towards | toward | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 evening | compound |
| 2 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 completed | punct |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 completed | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 feast | det |
| 6 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 completed | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 completed | aux:pass |
| 8 | completed | complete | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 withdrew | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 guests | det |
| 11 | guests | guest | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 withdrew | nsubj |
| 12 | withdrew | withdraw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 completed | parataxis |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 left | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 left | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Boy | det |
| 16 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 left | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 left | aux:pass |
| 18 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 withdrew | conj |
| 19 | alone | alone | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 left | xcomp |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 22 Bride | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 Bride | nmod:poss |
| 22 | Bride | bride | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 left | obl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 began | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 began | cc |
| 25 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 began | nsubj |
| 26 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 completed | parataxis |
| 27 | asking | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 began | xcomp |
| 28 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 asking | obj |
| 29 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 27 asking | ccomp |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 matter | det |
| 31 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 what | nsubj |
| 32 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 what | cop |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 behaving | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 behaving | cc |
| 35 | why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 behaving | advmod |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 behaving | nsubj |
| 37 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 behaving | aux |
| 38 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 39 behaving | aux |
| 39 | behaving | behave | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 began | conj |
| 40 | so | so | ADV | _ | 41 strangely | advmod |
| 41 | strangely | strangely | ADV | _ | 39 behaving | advmod |
| 42 | during | during | ADP | _ | 44 banquet | case |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 banquet | det |
| 44 | banquet | banquet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 behaving | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 completed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | complete | past · passive | Towards evening | the feast nsubj:pass | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | withdraw | past | the guests | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | leave | past · passive | the Boy | with feast's Bride; alone property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: subject=Recipient with bride=Theme | ||||
| 4 | begin | past | Bride | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | gerund | Bride not said here | feast | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 6 | is a | past | the matter | tree rules | |||||
| 7 | behave | past · perfect · progressive | feast | during the banquet | strangely property | vn masquerade-29.6-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=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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