Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 22
“Well,” said the Tiger, “the fact is, that a family of strange animals, who call themselves Jackals, are at this moment in occupation of my den.
Who acts: Tiger, fact, strange animals · What happens: say, be, call, occupy · To what, where: family, Father, occupation, den · 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 (Tiger, fact, strange animals), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Tiger | det |
| 7 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 family | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 family | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 fact | det |
| 11 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 family | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 family | cop |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 family | punct |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 16 family | mark |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 family | det |
| 16 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 Tiger | appos |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 animals | case |
| 18 | strange | strange | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 animals | amod |
| 19 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 family | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 call | punct |
| 21 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 22 call | nsubj |
| 22 | call | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 animals | acl:relcl |
| 23 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 call | obj |
| 24 | Jackals | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Plur | 22 call | xcomp |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 moment | punct |
| 26 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 moment | cop |
| 27 | at | at | ADP | _ | 29 moment | case |
| 28 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 29 moment | det |
| 29 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | obl |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 occupation | case |
| 31 | occupation | occupation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 moment | nmod |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 34 den | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 den | nmod:poss |
| 34 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 occupation | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Tiger | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | the fact | a family | of strange animals | tree rules | |||
| 3 | call in a quote | present | strange animals | Father | Jackals xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent themselves=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | occupation of my den | at this moment | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | occupy in a quote | my den | nom occupation «act transitive»: of=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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