Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 87
One of them hoisted him up on to his back, and they carried him along for some distance until they reached the banks of a small stream.
Who acts: One, robbers · What happens: hoist up, carry, reach · To what, where: Boy, back, banks
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 (One, robbers), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 hoisted | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 them | case |
| 3 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 One | nmod |
| 4 | hoisted | hoist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 hoisted | obj |
| 6 | up | up | ADP | _ | 4 hoisted | compound:prt |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 back | case |
| 8 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 on | fixed |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 hoisted | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 carried | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 carried | cc |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | nsubj |
| 14 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 hoisted | parataxis |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 carried | obj |
| 16 | along | along | ADV | _ | 14 carried | advmod |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 19 distance | case |
| 18 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 19 distance | det |
| 19 | distance | distance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 carried | obl |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 reached | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 reached | nsubj |
| 22 | reached | reach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 carried | advcl |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 banks | det |
| 24 | banks | bank | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 reached | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 stream | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 stream | det |
| 27 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 stream | amod |
| 28 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 banks | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 hoisted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hoist up | past | One of robbers | Boy | Boy's back | vn put_direction-9.4 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | carry | past | robbers = robber | Boy | for some distance; along property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | reach | past | robbers = robber | the banks of a small stream | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Agent bank=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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