Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 20
The more the sheep struggled below the more the Lama pulled above, and at last, when the tug-of-war had lasted for some minutes, the sheep was strangled by the slip-knot round its neck.
Who acts: sheep, Lama, slip knot · What happens: struggle, pull, last, strangle, tug · To what, where: tug, sheep, war
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 (sheep, Lama, slip knot), 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 | 2 more | det |
| 2 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 5 struggled | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sheep | det |
| 4 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 struggled | nsubj |
| 5 | struggled | struggle | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | below | below | ADP | _ | 11 pulled | mark |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 more | det |
| 8 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 pulled | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Lama | det |
| 10 | Lama | Lama | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 pulled | nsubj |
| 11 | pulled | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 struggled | advcl |
| 12 | above | above | ADV | _ | 11 pulled | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 last | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 last | cc |
| 15 | at | at | ADP | _ | 16 last | case |
| 16 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 struggled | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 lasted | punct |
| 18 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 26 lasted | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 tug | det |
| 20 | tug | tug | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 lasted | nsubj:pass |
| 21 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 war | punct |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 war | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 of | punct |
| 24 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 tug | nmod |
| 25 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 lasted | aux |
| 26 | lasted | last | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 16 last | conj |
| 27 | for | for | ADP | _ | 29 minutes | case |
| 28 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 29 minutes | det |
| 29 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 lasted | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 strangled | punct |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 sheep | det |
| 32 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 strangled | nsubj |
| 33 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 strangled | aux:pass |
| 34 | strangled | strangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 struggled | conj |
| 35 | by | by | ADP | _ | 39 knot | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 knot | det |
| 37 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 knot | compound |
| 38 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 37 slip | punct |
| 39 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 strangled | obl |
| 40 | round | round | ADP | _ | 42 neck | case |
| 41 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 neck | nmod:poss |
| 42 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 strangled | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 struggled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | struggle | past | the sheep | vn battle-36.4 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | pull | past | the Lama | above property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | last | past · perfect · passive | the tug of war | minute | vn cost-54.2 «NP V NP.value»: subject=Value | ||||
| 4 | strangle | past · passive | the slip knot | the sheep | round tug's neck | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Patient | |||
| 5 | tug | war | nom tug «act transitive»: of=patient |
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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