Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 6
So he went forward alone, and, peeping in, he found that the Tiger was out, but that he had left a large quantity of deer’s flesh lying in one corner, which apparently he had not had time to consume.
Who acts: Tiger, flesh · What happens: go, peep, find, be, leave, lie · To what, where: large quantity, one corner · 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 (Tiger, flesh), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 went | nsubj |
| 3 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | forward | forward | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 5 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 3 went | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 peeping | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 peeping | cc |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 peeping | punct |
| 9 | peeping | peep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 went | advcl |
| 10 | in | in | ADV | _ | 9 peeping | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 found | punct |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 found | nsubj |
| 13 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 went | conj |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 out | mark |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Tiger | det |
| 16 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 out | nsubj |
| 17 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 out | cop |
| 18 | out | out | ADV | _ | 13 found | ccomp |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 left | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 left | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 left | mark |
| 22 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 left | nsubj |
| 23 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 left | aux |
| 24 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 went | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 quantity | det |
| 26 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 quantity | amod |
| 27 | quantity | quantity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 left | obj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 flesh | case |
| 29 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 29 deer | case |
| 31 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 quantity | nmod |
| 32 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 flesh | acl |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 35 corner | case |
| 34 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 35 corner | nummod |
| 35 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 lying | obl |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 42 had | punct |
| 37 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 had | obj |
| 38 | apparently | apparently | ADV | _ | 42 had | advmod |
| 39 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 had | nsubj |
| 40 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 had | aux |
| 41 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 42 had | advmod |
| 42 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 35 corner | acl:relcl |
| 43 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 had | obj |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 consume | mark |
| 45 | consume | consume | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 time | acl |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 went | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past | Tiger | alone, forward property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | peep | gerund | Tiger not said here | vn animal_sounds-38 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | find | past | Tiger | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | past | the Tiger | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | leave | past · perfect | Tiger | a large quantity of deer's flesh | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent quantity=Theme | ||||
| 6 | lie | gerund | deer's flesh not said here | one corner | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in corner=Location | ||||
| 7 | not have | past · perfect | Tiger | one corner | time | apparently property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient | ||
| 8 | consume | to-infinitive | Tiger not said here | vn consume-66 «NP V NP»: agent=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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