Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 33
“That is right, Brother Monkey, bring him along quickly; we are all half starved.
Who acts: That · What happens: be, bring, starve · To what, where: Monkey, we
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 (That), 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 | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Monkey | punct |
| 6 | Brother | brother | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Monkey | amod |
| 7 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 right | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 bring | punct |
| 9 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 right | conj |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bring | obj |
| 11 | along | along | ADV | _ | 9 bring | advmod |
| 12 | quickly | quickly | ADV | _ | 9 bring | advmod |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 starved | punct |
| 14 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 starved | nsubj |
| 15 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 starved | aux:pass |
| 16 | all | all | ADV | _ | 18 starved | advmod |
| 17 | half | half | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 18 starved | advmod |
| 18 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 right | conj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | Brother Monkey conj; right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | bring in a quote | infinitive | That not said here | Monkey | along, quickly property | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 3 | starve in a quote | present · passive | we | all, half property | tree rules |
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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