Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 84
So under this impression, he ran out of the courtyard and joined a flock of sheep, which were grazing on a neighbouring hillside.
Who acts: Boy, flock · What happens: run, join, graze, neighbour · To what, where: impression, flock
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 (Boy, flock), 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 | _ | 7 ran | advmod |
| 2 | under | under | ADP | _ | 4 impression | case |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 impression | det |
| 4 | impression | impression | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 impression | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 ran | nsubj |
| 7 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 courtyard | case |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 courtyard | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 courtyard | det |
| 11 | courtyard | courtyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 ran | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 joined | cc |
| 13 | joined | join | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 ran | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 flock | det |
| 15 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 joined | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 sheep | case |
| 17 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 flock | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 grazing | punct |
| 19 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 grazing | nsubj |
| 20 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 grazing | aux |
| 21 | grazing | graze | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 flock | acl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 hillside | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hillside | det |
| 24 | neighbouring | neighbour | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 25 hillside | amod |
| 25 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 grazing | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 ran | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | past | Boy | this impression | out the courtyard | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme under impression=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | join | past | Boy not said here | a flock of sheep | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flock=Patient | ||||
| 3 | graze | past · progressive | a flock of sheep | on a neighbouring hillside | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on hillside=Patient | ||||
| 4 | neighbour | gerund | tree rules |
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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