Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 79
The young Man was terrified at what he had done, and feeling sure that he must have killed the old man, he decided to flee from the house; so he opened the door and ran off into the night.
Who acts: young Man, man · What happens: be, do, feel, kill, decide, flee · To what, where: man, house, door
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), 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 | 5 terrified | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | cop |
| 5 | terrified | terrified | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | at | at | ADP | _ | 7 what | case |
| 7 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 5 terrified | obl |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 done | nsubj |
| 9 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 done | aux |
| 10 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 7 what | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 decided | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 decided | cc |
| 13 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 decided | advcl |
| 14 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 feeling | xcomp |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 killed | mark |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 17 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 killed | aux |
| 18 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 killed | aux |
| 19 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 sure | ccomp |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 man | det |
| 21 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 man | amod |
| 22 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 killed | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 feeling | punct |
| 24 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 decided | nsubj |
| 25 | decided | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 flee | mark |
| 27 | flee | flee | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 decided | xcomp |
| 28 | from | from | ADP | _ | 30 house | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 house | det |
| 30 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 flee | obl |
| 31 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 opened | punct |
| 32 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 opened | advmod |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 opened | nsubj |
| 34 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 terrified | parataxis |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 door | det |
| 36 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 opened | obj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 ran | cc |
| 38 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 opened | conj |
| 39 | off | off | ADP | _ | 38 ran | compound:prt |
| 40 | into | into | ADP | _ | 42 night | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 night | det |
| 42 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 ran | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 terrified | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the young Man | what obl; terrified property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | do | past · perfect | man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | feel | gerund | man not said here | sure property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | kill | must · perfect · passive | man | the old man obj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer man=Result | ||||
| 5 | decide | past | man | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 6 | flee not said to happen | to-infinitive | man not said here | the house | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme from house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | open | past | man | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 8 | run off | past | man not said here | night | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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