Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 20
After running some way, he came across an old Baboon, with a great fringe of white hair all round his face.
Who acts: animal · What happens: run, come · To what, where: way, old Baboon
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 (animal), 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 running | mark |
| 2 | running | run | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 came | advcl |
| 3 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 4 way | det |
| 4 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 running | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 running | punct |
| 6 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 came | nsubj |
| 7 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | across | across | ADP | _ | 11 Baboon | case |
| 9 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Baboon | det |
| 10 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Baboon | amod |
| 11 | Baboon | Baboon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 fringe | punct |
| 13 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 fringe | case |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 fringe | det |
| 15 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 fringe | amod |
| 16 | fringe | fringe | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 came | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 hair | case |
| 18 | white | white | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 hair | amod |
| 19 | hair | hair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fringe | nmod |
| 20 | all | all | ADV | _ | 23 face | advmod |
| 21 | round | round | ADP | _ | 23 face | case |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 face | nmod:poss |
| 23 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 fringe | nmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | run | gerund | animal not said here | some way | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme way=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | come | past | animal | a old Baboon | with a great fringe of white hair round animal's face | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across baboon=Initial_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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