Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 15
So she told him the story of his two elder brothers, and explained to him that he was a man child, and could not wander away into the jungle like they did, but must stay in the nest.
Who acts: Mother, Boy, men · What happens: tell, explain, be, not wander away, do, stay · To what, where: story, Boy, man child, jungle, nest · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Mother, Boy, men), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 told | advmod |
| 2 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 3 | told | tell | 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 told | iobj |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 story | det |
| 6 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | obj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 brothers | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 brothers | nmod:poss |
| 9 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 brothers | nummod |
| 10 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 brothers | amod |
| 11 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 story | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 explained | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 explained | cc |
| 14 | explained | explain | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | parataxis |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 explained | obl |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 child | mark |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 child | nsubj |
| 19 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 child | cop |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 child | det |
| 21 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 child | compound |
| 22 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 explained | ccomp |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 wander | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 wander | cc |
| 25 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 wander | aux |
| 26 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 27 wander | advmod |
| 27 | wander | wander | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | conj |
| 28 | away | away | ADV | _ | 27 wander | advmod |
| 29 | into | into | ADP | _ | 31 jungle | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 jungle | det |
| 31 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 wander | obl |
| 32 | like | like | SCONJ | _ | 34 did | mark |
| 33 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 did | nsubj |
| 34 | did | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 wander | advcl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 stay | punct |
| 36 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 38 stay | cc |
| 37 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 stay | aux |
| 38 | stay | stay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 told | conj |
| 39 | in | in | ADP | _ | 41 nest | case |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 nest | det |
| 41 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 stay | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | past | Mother | the story of Boy's two elder brothers | Boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent he=Recipient story=Topic | |||
| 2 | explain speech: assert | past | Boy | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||||
| 3 | is a | past | Boy | a man child | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not wander away | could | Mother not said here | the jungle | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into jungle=Destination | |||
| 5 | do | past | men = man | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | stay | must | Mother not said here | the nest | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in nest=Location |
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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