Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 10

When I see him coming I shall rap on the roof, and you must at once wake up the children and make them begin to cry, and when I ask you what they are crying about, you must say that they are getting impatient for their supper.”

Who acts: I, Tiger, children, you · What happens: see, come, rap, wake up, make, begin · To what, where: Tiger, roof, children, you · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, Tiger, children, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 see	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 see	nsubj
3	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	8 rap	advcl
4	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 see	obj
5	coming	come	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	3 see	xcomp
6	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 rap	nsubj
7	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 rap	aux
8	rap	rap	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
9	on	on	ADP	_	11 roof	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 roof	det
11	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 rap	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 must	punct
13	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 must	cc
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 must	nsubj
15	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 wake	aux
16	at	at	ADP	_	17 once	case
17	once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	18 wake	advmod
18	wake	wake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 rap	conj
19	up	up	ADP	_	18 wake	compound:prt
20	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	21 children	det
21	children	child	NOUN	Number=Plur	18 wake	obj
22	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 make	cc
23	make	make	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	18 wake	conj
24	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	23 make	obj
25	begin	begin	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 make	xcomp
26	to	to	PART	_	27 cry	mark
27	cry	cry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 begin	xcomp
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	42 say	punct
29	and	and	CCONJ	_	42 say	cc
30	when	when	ADV	PronType=Int	32 ask	advmod
31	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	32 ask	nsubj
32	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	42 say	advcl
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	32 ask	obj
34	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	37 crying	obj
35	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 crying	nsubj
36	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	37 crying	aux
37	crying	cry	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	32 ask	advcl
38	about	about	ADV	_	37 crying	advmod
39	,	,	PUNCT	_	32 ask	punct
40	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	42 say	nsubj
41	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	42 say	aux
42	say	say	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 rap	conj
43	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 getting	mark
44	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 getting	nsubj
45	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	46 getting	aux
46	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	42 say	ccomp
47	impatient	impatient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	46 getting	xcomp
48	for	for	ADP	_	50 supper	case
49	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	50 supper	nmod:poss
50	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 getting	obl
51	.	.	PUNCT	_	8 rap	punct
52	”	"	PUNCT	_	8 rap	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	I	Tiger				tree rules
2	come	gerund	Tiger not said here					vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	rap	shall	I			the roof		vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on roof=Location
4	wake up	must	I not said here	the children			once property	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent child=Patient
5	make	infinitive	I not said here	children = child				tree rules
6	begin	infinitive	children = child not said here					vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
7	cry speech: express	to-infinitive	children = child not said here					vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8	ask speech: ask	present	I		you			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
9	cry speech: express	present · progressive	children = child				what obj; about property	vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent what=Topic
10	say speech: assert	must	you					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
11	get	present · progressive	children = child				for children's supper; impatient property	vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent for supper=Source

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 Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 10

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 10