Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 95

The Landlord received him very hospitably, and made him quite comfortable, and during the conversation which followed their evening meal the Master of the house began telling some very tall stories.

Who acts: Landlord, conversation, evening meal · What happens: receive, make, follow, begin, tell · To what, where: Boy, tall stories · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Landlord, conversation, evening meal), 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	The	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	2 Landlord	det
2	Landlord	Landlord	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 received	nsubj
3	received	receive	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 received	obj
5	very	very	ADV	_	6 hospitably	advmod
6	hospitably	hospitably	ADV	_	3 received	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 made	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	9 made	cc
9	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	3 received	parataxis
10	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 made	obj
11	quite	quite	ADV	_	12 comfortable	advmod
12	comfortable	comfortable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 made	xcomp
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	28 began	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 began	cc
15	during	during	ADP	_	17 conversation	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 conversation	det
17	conversation	conversation	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 began	obl
18	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	19 followed	nsubj
19	followed	follow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 conversation	acl:relcl
20	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 meal	nmod:poss
21	evening	evening	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 meal	compound
22	meal	meal	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 began	nsubj
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Master	det
24	Master	Master	PROPN	Number=Sing	22 meal	appos
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 house	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 house	det
27	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Master	nmod
28	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 made	conj
29	telling	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	28 began	xcomp
30	some	some	DET	PronType=Ind	33 stories	det
31	very	very	ADV	_	32 tall	advmod
32	tall	tall	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 stories	amod
33	stories	story	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 telling	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 received	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	receive	past	the Landlord	Boy		hospitably property	vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2	make	past		Boy		comfortable property	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product
3	follow	past	the conversation				vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	begin	past	goods's evening meal		during the conversation		vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	tell speech: assert	gerund	goods's evening meal not said here	some tall stories			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent story=Recipient

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 95

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 95