Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 73
He was at first too shy to tell her what had happened, but after much coaxing she elicited from him the fact that his right hand was confined in the neck of the copper vessel.
Who acts: feast, Bride, fact · What happens: be, tell, happen, elicit, confine · To what, where: Bride, fact, right hand, neck · 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, Bride, fact), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 shy | nsubj |
| 2 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shy | cop |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 4 first | case |
| 4 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 6 shy | obl |
| 5 | too | too | ADV | _ | 6 shy | advmod |
| 6 | shy | shy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 tell | mark |
| 8 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 shy | advcl |
| 9 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 tell | iobj |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 12 happened | nsubj |
| 11 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 happened | aux |
| 12 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 8 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 elicited | punct |
| 14 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 elicited | cc |
| 15 | after | after | ADP | _ | 17 coaxing | case |
| 16 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 coaxing | amod |
| 17 | coaxing | coaxing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 elicited | obl |
| 18 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 elicited | nsubj |
| 19 | elicited | elicit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 shy | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 him | case |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 elicited | obl |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fact | det |
| 23 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 elicited | obj |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 confined | mark |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 hand | nmod:poss |
| 26 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 hand | amod |
| 27 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 confined | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 confined | aux:pass |
| 29 | confined | confine | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 fact | acl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 32 neck | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 neck | det |
| 32 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 confined | obl |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 vessel | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 vessel | det |
| 35 | copper | copper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 vessel | compound |
| 36 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 neck | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 shy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | feast | shy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | to-infinitive | feast not said here | Bride | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent she=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | elicit | past | Bride | the fact | after much coaxing | from feast | vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition fact=Patient | ||
| 5 | confine | past · passive | the fact not said here | feast's right hand | the neck of the copper vessel | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme in neck=Destination |
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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