Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 23

As I was approaching my den, after a long night’s hunting, one of the creatures was actually sitting on the roof, looking out for me, and as I got close up I heard him tell his young ones that they were to have hot Tiger’s meat for supper.

Who acts: I, hunting, Father, long night · What happens: approach, sit, look out, get up, hear, tell · To what, where: den, roof, hunting, young ones, meat · 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, hunting, Father, long night), 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	As	as	SCONJ	_	4 approaching	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 approaching	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 approaching	aux
4	approaching	approach	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 den	nmod:poss
6	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 approaching	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 hunting	punct
8	after	after	ADP	_	13 hunting	case
9	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	11 night	det
10	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 night	amod
11	night	night	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 hunting	nmod:poss
12	’s	's	PART	_	11 night	case
13	hunting	hunting	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sitting	nsubj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	15 one	punct
15	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	13 hunting	appos
16	of	of	ADP	_	18 creatures	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 creatures	det
18	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	15 one	nmod
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sitting	aux
20	actually	actually	ADV	_	21 sitting	advmod
21	sitting	sit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 approaching	conj
22	on	on	ADP	_	24 roof	case
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 roof	det
24	roof	roof	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 sitting	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 looking	punct
26	looking	look	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	21 sitting	conj
27	out	out	ADP	_	26 looking	compound:prt
28	for	for	ADP	_	29 me	case
29	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 looking	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 heard	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 heard	cc
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	34 got	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 got	nsubj
34	got	get	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 heard	advcl
35	close	close	ADV	Degree=Pos	34 got	advmod
36	up	up	ADV	_	34 got	advmod
37	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 heard	nsubj
38	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 sitting	parataxis
39	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 heard	obj
40	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	38 heard	xcomp
41	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 ones	nmod:poss
42	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 ones	amod
43	ones	one	NOUN	Number=Plur	40 tell	obj
44	that	that	SCONJ	_	48 have	mark
45	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	48 have	nsubj
46	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 have	aux
47	to	to	PART	_	48 have	mark
48	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	40 tell	ccomp
49	hot	hot	ADJ	Degree=Pos	50 Tiger	amod
50	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	52 meat	nmod:poss
51	’s	's	PART	_	50 Tiger	case
52	meat	meat	NOUN	Number=Sing	48 have	obj
53	for	for	ADP	_	54 supper	case
54	supper	supper	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 meat	nmod
55	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 approaching	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	approach	past · progressive	I	my den			vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent den=Theme
2	sit	past · progressive	a long night's hunting		the roof	actually property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on roof=Location
3	look out	gerund	a long night's hunting not said here			for me	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for i=Theme
4	get up	past	I			close property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer
5	hear	past	I	hunting			tree rules
6	tell speech: assert	infinitive	hunting not said here	hunting's young ones			vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent one=Recipient clause=Topic
7	have not said to happen	past	Father	hot Tiger's meat		for supper	vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent meat=Patient
8	hunt		a long night				nom hunting «act transitive»: poss=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 23

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 23