Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 13
According to the arrangement he had made, he rapped with a loose stone upon the roof of the den, and Mrs. Jackal immediately woke up the young Jackals and made them cry.
Who acts: family, Mrs., Jackals · What happens: accord, make, rap, wake up, cry · To what, where: arrangement, young Jackals, Jackals
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, Mrs., 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 | According | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 arrangement | case |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 1 According | fixed |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 arrangement | det |
| 4 | arrangement | arrangement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rapped | obl |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 made | nsubj |
| 6 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | aux |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 arrangement | acl:relcl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 arrangement | punct |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 rapped | nsubj |
| 10 | rapped | rap | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 stone | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 stone | det |
| 13 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 stone | amod |
| 14 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 rapped | obl |
| 15 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 17 roof | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 roof | det |
| 17 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stone | nmod |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 den | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 den | det |
| 20 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 roof | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 woke | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 woke | cc |
| 23 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 26 woke | nsubj |
| 24 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 Mrs. | flat |
| 25 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 26 woke | advmod |
| 26 | woke | wake | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 rapped | parataxis |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 woke | compound:prt |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Jackals | det |
| 29 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Jackals | amod |
| 30 | Jackals | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Plur | 26 woke | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 made | cc |
| 32 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 woke | conj |
| 33 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 made | obj |
| 34 | cry | cry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 made | xcomp |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 rapped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accord | gerund | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | make | past · perfect | family | the arrangement not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent arrangement=Product | ||||
| 3 | rap | past | family | accord the arrangement; with a loose stone upon the roof of the den | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with stone=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | wake up | past | Mrs. | the young Jackals | immediately property | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent jackal=Patient | |||
| 5 | make | past | Mrs. not said here | Jackals = jackal | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | cry speech: express | infinitive | Jackals = jackal not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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