Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 92
There he found that the old man, though sorely hurt, was not dead, and having explained all the circumstances of the case, he was freely forgiven, and taken back into the household.
Who acts: Boy · What happens: find, hurt, not be, explain, forgive, take back · To what, where: circumstances, Boy, household
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), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 found | expl |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 found | nsubj |
| 3 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 7 man | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 man | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 man | amod |
| 7 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 found | ccomp |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 hurt | punct |
| 9 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 11 hurt | mark |
| 10 | sorely | sorely | ADV | _ | 11 hurt | advmod |
| 11 | hurt | hurt | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 dead | punct |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 dead | cop |
| 14 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 15 dead | advmod |
| 15 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hurt | conj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 explained | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 explained | cc |
| 18 | having | have | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 explained | aux |
| 19 | explained | explain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 found | parataxis |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 22 circumstances | det:predet |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 circumstances | det |
| 22 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 explained | obj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 case | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 case | det |
| 25 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 circumstances | nmod |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 forgiven | punct |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 forgiven | nsubj:pass |
| 28 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 forgiven | aux:pass |
| 29 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 30 forgiven | advmod |
| 30 | forgiven | forgive | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 explained | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 taken | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 taken | cc |
| 33 | taken | take | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 found | conj |
| 34 | back | back | ADV | _ | 33 taken | advmod |
| 35 | into | into | ADP | _ | 37 household | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 household | det |
| 37 | household | household | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 taken | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | find | past | Boy | there | the old man ccomp | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 2 | hurt | participle | Boy not said here | sorely property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | not is | past | Boy not said here | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | explain speech: assert | gerund · perfect | all circumstances of the case | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent circumstance=Topic | |||||
| 5 | forgive | past · passive | Boy | freely property | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | ||||
| 6 | take back | participle | Boy not said here | the household | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent into household=Destination |
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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