Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 41

You see the majority of our burrows are in the low-lying land near the river, and whenever the river rises a little it overflows this level country and floods our nests.

Who acts: You, burrows, river · What happens: see, lie, be, rise, overflow, flood · To what, where: majority, river, little, nests

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 (You, burrows, river), 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	You	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 see	nsubj
2	see	see	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 majority	det
4	majority	majority	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 see	obj
5	of	of	ADP	_	14 land	case
6	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 burrows	nmod:poss
7	burrows	burrow	NOUN	Number=Plur	14 land	nsubj
8	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 land	cop
9	in	in	ADP	_	14 land	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 land	det
11	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 lying	compound
12	-	-	PUNCT	_	11 low	punct
13	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 land	amod
14	land	land	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 majority	nmod
15	near	near	ADP	_	17 river	case
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 river	det
17	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 land	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	23 rises	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 rises	cc
20	whenever	whenever	ADV	PronType=Rel	23 rises	advmod
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 river	det
22	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 rises	nsubj
23	rises	rise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	2 see	conj
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	25 little	det
25	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 overflows	obl:unmarked
26	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 overflows	nsubj
27	overflows	overflow	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 rises	advcl
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 country	det
29	level	level	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 country	compound
30	country	country	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 overflows	obj
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 floods	cc
32	floods	flood	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 overflows	conj
33	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 nests	nmod:poss
34	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 floods	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 see	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	see	present	You	the majority			vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer majority=Stimulus
2	lie	gerund					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	present	our burrows		the river	of the lying land	tree rules
4	rise	present	the river			whenever property	vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	overflow	present	river	a little		this level country obj	tree rules
6	flood	present	river not said here	our nests			vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent nest=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 41

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 41