Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 76
The young fellow thought this was a good idea, and he went off quietly down the staircase, until he detected what he thought was a white stone lying near the foot of the steps.
Who acts: young fellow, this, fellow, white stone · What happens: think, be, go off, detect, lie · To what, where: good idea, white stone, foot · 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 fellow, this, fellow, white stone), 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 fellow | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 fellow | amod |
| 3 | fellow | fellow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 idea | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 idea | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 idea | amod |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | parataxis |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 13 went | advmod |
| 16 | down | down | ADP | _ | 18 staircase | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 staircase | det |
| 18 | staircase | staircase | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 detected | punct |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 detected | mark |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 detected | nsubj |
| 22 | detected | detect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 23 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 29 stone | nsubj |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 thought | nsubj |
| 25 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 what | acl:relcl |
| 26 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 stone | cop |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 29 stone | det |
| 28 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 stone | amod |
| 29 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 detected | ccomp |
| 30 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 29 stone | acl |
| 31 | near | near | ADP | _ | 33 foot | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 foot | det |
| 33 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 lying | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 steps | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 steps | det |
| 36 | steps | step | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 foot | nmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the young fellow | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | a good idea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go off | past | fellow | down the staircase; quietly property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | detect | past | fellow | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | think speech: other | past | fellow | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | is a | past | a white stone | what nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | lie | gerund | a white stone not said here | the foot of the steps | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent near foot=Location |
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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