Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 3
So one fine evening they started off and travelled away across the country, keeping a sharp look-out for some desirable spot in which they might settle down.
Who acts: dogs · What happens: start off, travel away, keep, settle down · To what, where: country, sharp look out, desirable spot
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 (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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 6 started | advmod |
| 2 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 evening | nummod |
| 3 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 evening | amod |
| 4 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 started | obl:unmarked |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 started | nsubj |
| 6 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 6 started | compound:prt |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 travelled | cc |
| 9 | travelled | travel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 started | conj |
| 10 | away | away | ADV | _ | 9 travelled | advmod |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 country | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 country | det |
| 13 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 travelled | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 keeping | punct |
| 15 | keeping | keep | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 travelled | advcl |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 out | det |
| 17 | sharp | sharp | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 out | amod |
| 18 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 out | compound |
| 19 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 look | punct |
| 20 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keeping | obj |
| 21 | for | for | ADP | _ | 24 spot | case |
| 22 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 24 spot | det |
| 23 | desirable | desirable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 spot | amod |
| 24 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 keeping | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 which | case |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 settle | obl |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 settle | nsubj |
| 28 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 settle | aux |
| 29 | settle | settle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 spot | acl:relcl |
| 30 | down | down | ADP | _ | 29 settle | compound:prt |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 started | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | start off | past | dogs = dog | evening | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | travel away | past | dogs = dog not said here | the country | away property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme across country=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | keep | gerund | dogs = dog not said here | a sharp look out | for some desirable spot | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent out=Theme | |||
| 4 | settle down | might | dogs = dog | some desirable spot | vn convert-26.6.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=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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