Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 22
This other country was far more wealthy and powerful than the country where the Mice lived, and its King soon assembled a huge army on the opposite bank of the river and began making preparations for invasion.
Who acts: other country, Mice, King · What happens: be, live, assemble, begin, make · To what, where: huge army, opposite bank, preparations
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (other country, Mice, King), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 country | det |
| 2 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 country | amod |
| 3 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 wealthy | nsubj |
| 4 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wealthy | cop |
| 5 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 wealthy | advmod |
| 6 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 7 wealthy | advmod |
| 7 | wealthy | wealthy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 powerful | cc |
| 9 | powerful | powerful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 wealthy | conj |
| 10 | than | than | ADP | _ | 12 country | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 country | det |
| 12 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 powerful | obl |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 lived | advmod |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Mice | det |
| 15 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lived | nsubj |
| 16 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 country | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 assembled | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 assembled | cc |
| 19 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 King | nmod:poss |
| 20 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 assembled | nsubj |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 assembled | advmod |
| 22 | assembled | assemble | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 wealthy | parataxis |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 army | det |
| 24 | huge | huge | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 army | amod |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 assembled | obj |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 bank | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 bank | det |
| 28 | opposite | opposite | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 bank | amod |
| 29 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 assembled | obl |
| 30 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 river | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 river | det |
| 32 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 bank | nmod |
| 33 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 began | cc |
| 34 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 assembled | conj |
| 35 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 34 began | xcomp |
| 36 | preparations | preparation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 35 making | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 38 invasion | case |
| 38 | invasion | invasion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 making | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 wealthy | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | this other country | far, wealthy property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | this other country not said here | than the country | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | live | past | the Mice | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | assemble | past | country's King | a huge army | the opposite bank of the river | soon property | vn herd-47.5.2 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent army=Theme | ||
| 5 | begin | past | country's King not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | make | gerund | country's King not said here | preparations | for invasion | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent preparation=Product for invasion=Asset |
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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