Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 38
The unfortunate Baboon, whose tail was tightly twisted round the Tiger’s, was unable to free himself, and was dragged and bumped hither and thither in the Tiger’s rush through the thickest and thorniest parts of the jungle.
Who acts: unfortunate Baboon, Tiger · What happens: twist, be, drag, bump, rush · To what, where: tail, rush, thickest parts
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 (unfortunate Baboon, Tiger), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Baboon | det |
| 2 | unfortunate | unfortunate | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Baboon | amod |
| 3 | Baboon | Baboon | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 unable | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 twisted | punct |
| 5 | whose | whose | PRON | Poss=Yes PronType=Rel | 6 tail | nmod:poss |
| 6 | tail | tail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 twisted | nsubj:pass |
| 7 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 twisted | aux:pass |
| 8 | tightly | tightly | ADV | _ | 9 twisted | advmod |
| 9 | twisted | twist | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 Baboon | acl:relcl |
| 10 | round | round | ADP | _ | 12 Tiger | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Tiger | det |
| 12 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 twisted | obl |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Tiger | case |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Baboon | punct |
| 15 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 unable | cop |
| 16 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 free | mark |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 unable | xcomp |
| 19 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 18 free | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 dragged | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 dragged | cc |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dragged | aux:pass |
| 23 | dragged | drag | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 unable | parataxis |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bumped | cc |
| 25 | bumped | bump | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 23 dragged | conj |
| 26 | hither | hither | ADV | _ | 25 bumped | advmod |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 thither | cc |
| 28 | thither | thither | ADV | _ | 26 hither | conj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 rush | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Tiger | det |
| 31 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 rush | nmod:poss |
| 32 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 31 Tiger | case |
| 33 | rush | rush | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bumped | obl |
| 34 | through | through | ADP | _ | 39 parts | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 parts | det |
| 36 | thickest | thick | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 parts | amod |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 thorniest | cc |
| 38 | thorniest | thorny | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 36 thickest | conj |
| 39 | parts | part | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 rush | nmod |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 jungle | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 jungle | det |
| 42 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 parts | nmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 16 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | twist | past · passive | tail | round the Tiger; tightly property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme round tiger=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the unfortunate Baboon | free, unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drag | past · passive | vn search-35.2 «NP V PP.location» | ||||||
| 4 | bump | past | the Tiger's rush through the thickest parts of the jungle; thither | hither property | vn bump-18.4-1 «NP V together»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | rush | the Tiger | the thickest parts of the jungle | nom rush «act transitive»: poss=agent through=place |
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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