Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 8
After making a good meal himself off the deer’s flesh, he said to Mrs. Jackal:
Who acts: Tiger · What happens: make, say · To what, where: good meal, Mrs. · 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 | After | after | SCONJ | _ | 2 making | mark |
| 2 | making | make | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 said | advcl |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 meal | det |
| 4 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 meal | amod |
| 5 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 making | obj |
| 6 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 5 meal | nmod |
| 7 | off | off | ADP | _ | 11 flesh | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 deer | det |
| 9 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 deer | case |
| 11 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 making | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 making | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 said | nsubj |
| 14 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 Mrs. | case |
| 16 | Mrs. | Mrs. | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 said | obl |
| 17 | Jackal | Jackal | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 Mrs. | flat |
| 18 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 14 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | gerund | Tiger not said here | a good meal Tiger | off the deer's flesh | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset meal=Product | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | Tiger | Mrs. | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to mrs.=Recipient |
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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