Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 88
Here they halted, and, laying him down upon the ground, they began to make preparations for cutting his throat.
Who acts: robbers · What happens: halt, lay down, begin, make, cut · To what, where: Boy, ground, preparations, throat
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), 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 | Here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 halted | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 halted | nsubj |
| 3 | halted | halt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 began | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 began | cc |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 and | punct |
| 7 | laying | lay | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 began | advcl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 laying | obj |
| 9 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 laying | compound:prt |
| 10 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 12 ground | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 ground | det |
| 12 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 laying | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 laying | punct |
| 14 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 began | nsubj |
| 15 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 halted | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 make | mark |
| 17 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 began | xcomp |
| 18 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 make | obj |
| 19 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 20 cutting | mark |
| 20 | cutting | cut | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 make | advcl |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 throat | nmod:poss |
| 22 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 cutting | obj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 halted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | halt | past | robbers = robber | here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | lay down | gerund | robbers = robber not said here | Boy | the ground | vn put_spatial-9.2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme upon ground=Destination | |||
| 3 | begin | past | robbers = robber | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | preparations | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset preparation=Product | ||||
| 5 | cut | gerund | robbers = robber not said here | Boy's throat | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset throat=Product |
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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