Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 85
He wandered about with the sheep all day, feeling very miserable, and trying to accommodate himself to the manners and customs of his new companions, and when evening came he accompanied them into the fold where they always spent the night.
Who acts: Boy, evening, companions · What happens: wander, feel, try, accommodate, come, accompany · To what, where: Boy, manners, companions, fold
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, evening, companions), 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 | 2 wandered | nsubj |
| 2 | wandered | wander | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | about | about | ADV | _ | 2 wandered | advmod |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 6 sheep | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 sheep | det |
| 6 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 wandered | obl |
| 7 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 day | det |
| 8 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 wandered | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 feeling | punct |
| 10 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 wandered | conj |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 miserable | advmod |
| 12 | miserable | miserable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 feeling | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trying | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trying | cc |
| 15 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 feeling | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 accommodate | mark |
| 17 | accommodate | accommodate | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 trying | xcomp |
| 18 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 17 accommodate | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 manners | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 manners | det |
| 21 | manners | manners | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 17 accommodate | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 customs | cc |
| 23 | customs | custom | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 manners | conj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 companions | case |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 companions | nmod:poss |
| 26 | new | new | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 companions | amod |
| 27 | companions | companion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 customs | nmod |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 accompanied | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 accompanied | cc |
| 30 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 32 came | advmod |
| 31 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 came | nsubj |
| 32 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 accompanied | advcl |
| 33 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 accompanied | nsubj |
| 34 | accompanied | accompany | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 wandered | parataxis |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 accompanied | obj |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 fold | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 fold | det |
| 38 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 accompanied | obl |
| 39 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 42 spent | advmod |
| 40 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 spent | nsubj |
| 41 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 42 spent | advmod |
| 42 | spent | spend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 fold | acl:relcl |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 night | det |
| 44 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 spent | obj |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 wandered | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wander | past | Boy | day | with the sheep; about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | feel | gerund | Boy not said here | miserable property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus | ||||
| 3 | try | gerund | Boy not said here | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | accommodate not said to happen | to-infinitive | Boy not said here | Boy | to the manners and customs of Boy's new companions goal | vn adjust-26.9 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent himself=Patient to manners=Goal | |||
| 5 | come | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | accompany | past | Boy | companions = companion | the fold | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme into fold=Destination | |||
| 7 | spend | past | companions = companion | night | always property | vn consume-66-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent |
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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