Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 32
However, they went on together, tail-in-tail, until presently Father Jackal on the roof of the den caught sight of the pair, and called out:
Who acts: people, Father · What happens: go, catch, call out, sight · To what, where: tail, sight, pair
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 (people, Father), 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 4 went | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 went | nsubj |
| 4 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 together | case |
| 6 | together | together | ADV | _ | 4 went | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 tail | punct |
| 8 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 tail | nsubj |
| 9 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 12 tail | punct |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 tail | case |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 in | punct |
| 12 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 went | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 caught | punct |
| 14 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 24 caught | mark |
| 15 | presently | presently | ADV | _ | 16 Father | advmod |
| 16 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | nsubj |
| 17 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Father | flat |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 roof | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 roof | det |
| 20 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 Father | nmod |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 den | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 den | det |
| 23 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 roof | nmod |
| 24 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 went | parataxis |
| 25 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 caught | obj |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 pair | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 pair | det |
| 28 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 sight | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 called | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 called | cc |
| 31 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 24 caught | conj |
| 32 | out | out | ADP | _ | 31 called | compound:prt |
| 33 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | people | tail tail | however property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on together=Location | |||
| 2 | catch | past | Father on the roof of the den | sight of the pair | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||||
| 3 | call out speech: assert | participle | Father on the roof of the den not said here | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | sight | the pair | nom sight «cognition 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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