Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 1
Once upon a time there was a family of Jackals, consisting of a Father, Mother, and five young ones.
Who acts: family, Jackals · What happens: be, consist
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (family, Jackals), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 was | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Once | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 was | expl |
| 6 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 family | det |
| 8 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 was | nsubj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Jackals | case |
| 10 | Jackals | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Plur | 8 family | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 consisting | punct |
| 12 | consisting | consist | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 Jackals | acl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 Father | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 Father | det |
| 15 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 consisting | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 Mother | punct |
| 17 | Mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 Father | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 ones | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 ones | cc |
| 20 | five | five | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 ones | nummod |
| 21 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 ones | amod |
| 22 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 Father | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 was | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | a family of Jackals | there | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | consist | gerund | Jackals not said here | of a Father and Mother and five young ones | tree rules |
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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