Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 4
“Mother, I must now go off into the jungle and live there with my brother Tigers.
Who acts: Mother · What happens: go off, live · To what, where: jungle
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), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 2 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Mother | punct |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 go | nsubj |
| 5 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | aux |
| 6 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 go | advmod |
| 7 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | off | off | ADP | _ | 7 go | compound:prt |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 jungle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 jungle | det |
| 11 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 go | obl |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 live | cc |
| 13 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 go | conj |
| 14 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 live | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 brother | case |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 brother | nmod:poss |
| 17 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 live | obl |
| 18 | Tigers | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Plur | 17 brother | nmod |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go off in a quote | must | Mother | the jungle | now | I nsubj | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | live in a quote | present | Mother not said here | there | with my brother Tigers | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme with brother=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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