Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 7
So he called Mrs. Jackal and the children, and told them to go inside and to have a good feed, and to make themselves quite comfortable.
Who acts: Tiger · What happens: call, tell, go, have, make · To what, where: Mrs., good feed · 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), 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 called | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 called | nsubj |
| 3 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 called | obj |
| 5 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Mrs. | flat |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 children | cc |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 children | det |
| 8 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 Mrs. | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 told | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 told | cc |
| 11 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 called | conj |
| 12 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 told | iobj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 go | mark |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | xcomp |
| 15 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 have | cc |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 have | mark |
| 18 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 19 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 feed | det |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 feed | amod |
| 21 | feed | feed | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 have | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 make | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 make | cc |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 make | mark |
| 25 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 told | conj |
| 26 | themselves | themselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 make | obj |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 comfortable | advmod |
| 28 | comfortable | comfortable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 make | xcomp |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | past | Tiger | Mrs. and the children | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent mrs.=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | past | Tiger not said here | Mrs. | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent they=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | Tiger not said here | inside property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | have | to-infinitive | Tiger not said here | a good feed | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent feed=Patient | ||||
| 5 | make | to-infinitive | Tiger not said here | Mrs. | comfortable property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset themselves=Product |
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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