Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 36
On hearing this, the Tiger at once suspected that the Baboon was in the Jackal’s employ, and that he was being led into a trap.
Who acts: Tiger, Baboon · What happens: hear, suspect, be, lead · To what, where: this, employ, Baboon, trap
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, Baboon), 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 | On | on | SCONJ | _ | 2 hearing | mark |
| 2 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 9 suspected | advcl |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 hearing | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 hearing | punct |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tiger | det |
| 6 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 suspected | nsubj |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 once | case |
| 8 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 9 suspected | obl |
| 9 | suspected | suspect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 employ | mark |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Baboon | det |
| 12 | Baboon | Baboon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 employ | nsubj |
| 13 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 employ | cop |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 employ | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Jackal | det |
| 16 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 employ | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 Jackal | case |
| 18 | employ | employ | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 suspected | advcl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 led | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 led | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 led | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 led | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 led | aux:pass |
| 24 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 25 led | aux:pass |
| 25 | led | lead | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 suspected | conj |
| 26 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 trap | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 trap | det |
| 28 | trap | trap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 led | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 suspected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hear | gerund | the Tiger not said here | this | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | suspect | past | the Tiger | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is | past | the Baboon | the Jackal's employ | the Jackal nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 4 | lead | past · passive | Baboon | a trap | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: subject=Theme into trap=Destination |
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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