Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 86
About midnight some robbers came to the fold, and getting in amongst the sheep felt about for a good fat heavy one; and finally finding that the Boy was the heaviest of them all, they proceeded to carry him off.
Who acts: robbers, getting, Boy · What happens: come, get in, feel, find, be, proceed · To what, where: fold, Boy
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 (robbers, getting, Boy), 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 | About | about | ADV | _ | 2 midnight | advmod |
| 2 | midnight | midnight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 robbers | det |
| 4 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 came | nsubj |
| 5 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 fold | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 fold | det |
| 8 | fold | fold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 came | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 felt | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 felt | cc |
| 11 | getting | get | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 16 felt | csubj |
| 12 | in | in | ADV | _ | 11 getting | advmod |
| 13 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 15 sheep | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 sheep | det |
| 15 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 getting | obl |
| 16 | felt | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 came | conj |
| 17 | about | about | ADV | _ | 16 felt | advmod |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 23 one | case |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 one | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 one | amod |
| 21 | fat | fat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 one | compound |
| 22 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 one | amod |
| 23 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 felt | obl |
| 24 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 finding | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 finding | cc |
| 26 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 27 finding | advmod |
| 27 | finding | find | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 came | advcl |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 33 heaviest | mark |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Boy | det |
| 30 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 heaviest | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 heaviest | cop |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 heaviest | det |
| 33 | heaviest | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 finding | xcomp |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 them | case |
| 35 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 heaviest | nmod |
| 36 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 heaviest | advmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 proceeded | punct |
| 38 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 proceeded | nsubj |
| 39 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 finding | conj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 carry | mark |
| 41 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 proceeded | xcomp |
| 42 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 carry | obj |
| 43 | off | off | ADP | _ | 41 carry | compound:prt |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | some robbers | the fold | midnight | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to fold=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | get in | gerund | amongst the sheep | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | feel | past | getting | for a good fat heavy one; about property | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for one=Theme | ||||
| 4 | find | gerund | some robbers not said here | finally property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | is | past | the Boy | of robbers = robber; heavy property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | proceed | past | robbers = robber | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | carry off | to-infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | Boy | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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