Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 14
But he is a very violent sheep and is struggling desperately to escape.
Who acts: Servant · What happens: be, struggle, escape · To what, where: violent sheep
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Servant), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 7 sheep | cc |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 sheep | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 sheep | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 sheep | det |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 violent | advmod |
| 6 | violent | violent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 sheep | amod |
| 7 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 struggling | cc |
| 9 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 struggling | aux |
| 10 | struggling | struggle | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 sheep | conj |
| 11 | desperately | desperately | ADV | _ | 10 struggling | advmod |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 escape | mark |
| 13 | escape | escape | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 desperately | acl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 sheep | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Servant | a violent sheep | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | struggle | present · progressive | Servant not said here | desperately property | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | escape | to-infinitive | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «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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