Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 8
So he set to work, and soon scraped out for himself a shallow grave in the soft soil.
Who acts: fellow · What happens: set, work, scrape out · To what, where: shallow grave, soft soil
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 (fellow), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 set | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 set | nsubj |
| 3 | set | set | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 work | mark |
| 5 | work | work | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 set | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 scraped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 scraped | cc |
| 8 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 9 scraped | advmod |
| 9 | scraped | scrape | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 set | parataxis |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 scraped | compound:prt |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 12 himself | case |
| 12 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 scraped | obl |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 grave | det |
| 14 | shallow | shallow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 grave | amod |
| 15 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scraped | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 soil | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 soil | det |
| 18 | soft | soft | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 soil | amod |
| 19 | soil | soil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 scraped | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 set | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | set | past | fellow | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | work | to-infinitive | fellow not said here | vn employment-95.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | scrape out | participle | a shallow grave | the soft soil | for fellow; soon property | vn funnel-9.3-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent grave=Theme in soil=Trajectory |
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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