Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 40
He never again returned to his den, which was occupied henceforth by the Jackals, who lived there for many years in peace and comfort.
Who acts: Tiger, den, Jackals · What happens: not return, be, live
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, den, Jackals), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 returned | nsubj |
| 2 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 4 returned | advmod |
| 3 | again | again | ADV | _ | 4 returned | advmod |
| 4 | returned | return | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 den | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 den | nmod:poss |
| 7 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 returned | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 occupied | punct |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 occupied | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 occupied | cop |
| 11 | occupied | occupied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 den | acl:relcl |
| 12 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 11 occupied | advmod |
| 13 | by | by | ADP | _ | 15 Jackals | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Jackals | det |
| 15 | Jackals | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Plur | 11 occupied | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lived | punct |
| 17 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lived | nsubj |
| 18 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 Jackals | acl:relcl |
| 19 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 18 lived | advmod |
| 20 | for | for | ADP | _ | 22 years | case |
| 21 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 years | amod |
| 22 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lived | obl |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 24 peace | case |
| 24 | peace | peace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 years | nmod |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 comfort | cc |
| 26 | comfort | comfort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 peace | conj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 returned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not return | participle | Tiger | again | to Tiger's den result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to den=Result | |||
| 2 | is | past | Tiger's den | by the Jackals; henceforth, occupied property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | live | past | the Jackals | there | year | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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