Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 2
After living for some time very comfortably near a large village, they found that the dogs of the village were becoming so numerous and so troublesome that they considered it necessary to change their place of abode.
Who acts: Jackals, dogs · What happens: live, find, become, consider, change · To what, where: large village, village, place · 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 (Jackals, dogs), 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 living | mark |
| 2 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 found | advcl |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 5 time | case |
| 4 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 time | det |
| 5 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 living | obl |
| 6 | very | very | ADV | _ | 7 comfortably | advmod |
| 7 | comfortably | comfortably | ADV | _ | 2 living | advmod |
| 8 | near | near | ADP | _ | 11 village | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 village | det |
| 10 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 village | amod |
| 11 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 living | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 living | punct |
| 13 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 found | nsubj |
| 14 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 22 becoming | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 dogs | det |
| 17 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 becoming | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 village | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 village | det |
| 20 | village | village | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 dogs | nmod |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 becoming | aux |
| 22 | becoming | become | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 found | ccomp |
| 23 | so | so | ADV | _ | 24 numerous | advmod |
| 24 | numerous | numerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 becoming | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 troublesome | cc |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 27 troublesome | advmod |
| 27 | troublesome | troublesome | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 numerous | conj |
| 28 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 considered | mark |
| 29 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 considered | nsubj |
| 30 | considered | consider | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 troublesome | advcl |
| 31 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 considered | obj |
| 32 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 considered | xcomp |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 change | mark |
| 34 | change | change | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 necessary | advcl |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 place | nmod:poss |
| 36 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 change | obj |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 abode | case |
| 38 | abode | abode | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 place | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | gerund | Jackals = jackal not said here | a large village | time | comfortably property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme near village=Location | ||
| 2 | find | past | Jackals = jackal | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | become | past · progressive | the dogs of the village | numerous property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | consider | past | Jackals = jackal | village | necessary property | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent it=Attribute | |||
| 5 | change | to-infinitive | Jackals = jackal not said here | Jackals's place of abode | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent place=Patient |
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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