Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 53
Each man as he rose from his sleep found himself in a woeful plight—his clothes in rags, his pigtail cut off, his bow without a string, his rifle without a sling, and with no fuse or slow-match to fire it, and no provisions for breakfast.
Who acts: outcry, man, match · What happens: rise, find, cut off, fire, sleep · To what, where: man, sleep, outcry, woeful plight, pigtail
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 (outcry, man, match), 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 | Each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 man | det |
| 2 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | nsubj |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 rose | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 rose | nsubj |
| 5 | rose | rise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 man | acl:relcl |
| 6 | from | from | ADP | _ | 8 sleep | case |
| 7 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 sleep | nmod:poss |
| 8 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rose | obl |
| 9 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 10 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 9 found | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 plight | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 plight | det |
| 13 | woeful | woeful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 plight | amod |
| 14 | plight | plight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 17 clothes | punct |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 17 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 14 plight | appos |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 rags | case |
| 19 | rags | rag | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 clothes | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 pigtail | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 pigtail | nmod:poss |
| 22 | pigtail | pigtail | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clothes | conj |
| 23 | cut | cut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 pigtail | acl |
| 24 | off | off | ADP | _ | 23 cut | compound:prt |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 bow | punct |
| 26 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 bow | nmod:poss |
| 27 | bow | bow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clothes | conj |
| 28 | without | without | ADP | _ | 30 string | case |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 string | det |
| 30 | string | string | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 bow | nmod |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 rifle | punct |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 rifle | nmod:poss |
| 33 | rifle | rifle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 clothes | conj |
| 34 | without | without | ADP | _ | 36 sling | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 36 sling | det |
| 36 | sling | sling | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 rifle | nmod |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 fuse | punct |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 fuse | cc |
| 39 | with | with | ADP | _ | 41 fuse | case |
| 40 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 41 fuse | det |
| 41 | fuse | fuse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 found | obl |
| 42 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 45 match | cc |
| 43 | slow | slow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 match | amod |
| 44 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 43 slow | punct |
| 45 | match | match | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fuse | conj |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 fire | mark |
| 47 | fire | fire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 match | nmod |
| 48 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 47 fire | nsubj |
| 49 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 52 provisions | punct |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 52 provisions | cc |
| 51 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 52 provisions | det |
| 52 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 41 fuse | appos |
| 53 | for | for | ADP | _ | 54 breakfast | case |
| 54 | breakfast | breakfast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 provisions | nmod |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 found | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rise | past | outcry | each man not said here | outcry's sleep | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.patient V NP.extent PP.source PP.goal»: agent=Patient man=Extent from sleep=Initial_State | |||
| 2 | find | past | each man | outcry | a woeful plight | with no fuse or slow match | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent himself=Topic | ||
| 3 | cut off | participle | outcry's pigtail not said here | vn stop-55.4-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | fire | match | tree rules | ||||||
| 5 | sleep | outcry | nom sleep «state intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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