Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 5
The young Jackals were a good deal frightened at the smell of the Tiger’s den, but Father Jackal reassured them, and said that he thoroughly understood Tigers, and knew how to deal with them.
Who acts: young Jackals, Father Jackal, Tiger, den · What happens: be, frighten, reassure, say, understand, know · To what, where: good deal, smell, dogs, Tigers · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (young Jackals, Father Jackal, Tiger, den), 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 Jackals | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Jackals | amod |
| 3 | Jackals | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 deal | nsubj |
| 4 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 deal | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 deal | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 deal | amod |
| 7 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | frightened | frighten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 deal | acl |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 11 smell | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 smell | det |
| 11 | smell | smell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 frightened | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 den | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Tiger | det |
| 14 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 den | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 Tiger | case |
| 16 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 smell | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 reassured | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 reassured | cc |
| 19 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Jackal | compound |
| 20 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 reassured | nsubj |
| 21 | reassured | reassure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 deal | parataxis |
| 22 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 reassured | obj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 said | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 said | cc |
| 25 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 reassured | conj |
| 26 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 understood | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 understood | nsubj |
| 28 | thoroughly | thoroughly | ADV | _ | 29 understood | advmod |
| 29 | understood | understand | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 said | ccomp |
| 30 | Tigers | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Plur | 29 understood | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 knew | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 knew | cc |
| 33 | knew | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 29 understood | conj |
| 34 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 36 deal | advmod |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 deal | mark |
| 36 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 knew | ccomp |
| 37 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 them | case |
| 38 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 deal | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 deal | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | the young Jackals | a good deal | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | frighten | participle | a good deal not said here | the smell of the Tiger's den | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 3 | reassure | past | Father Jackal | dogs = dog | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus they=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | say speech: assert | past | Father Jackal not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | understand | past | Tiger | Tigers | thoroughly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer tiger=Stimulus | |||
| 6 | know | past | Tiger not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 7 | deal | to-infinitive | with dogs = dog | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with they=Theme | |||||
| 8 | smell | the Tiger's den | nom smell «cognition intransitive»: of=agent |
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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