Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 46

As the chase continued the poor doe began to show signs of exhaustion, and Baki, who was close upon her heels, was feeling confident that he would soon catch her.

Who acts: poor doe, Baki · What happens: continue, begin, show, be, feel, catch · To what, where: signs, doe, exhaustion

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (poor doe, Baki), 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	As	as	ADP	_	3 chase	case
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 chase	det
3	chase	chase	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 continued	obl
4	continued	continue	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 doe	det
6	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 doe	amod
7	doe	doe	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 began	nsubj
8	began	begin	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 continued	ccomp
9	to	to	PART	_	10 show	mark
10	show	show	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 began	xcomp
11	signs	sign	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 show	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	13 exhaustion	case
13	exhaustion	exhaustion	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 signs	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 close	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 close	cc
16	Baki	Baki	PROPN	Number=Sing	20 close	nsubj
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 close	punct
18	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	20 close	nsubj
19	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	20 close	cop
20	close	close	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 continued	conj
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	23 heels	case
22	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	23 heels	nmod:poss
23	heels	heel	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 close	obl
24	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 feeling	punct
25	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 feeling	aux
26	feeling	feel	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	4 continued	advcl
27	confident	confident	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 feeling	xcomp
28	that	that	SCONJ	_	32 catch	mark
29	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 catch	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 catch	aux
31	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	32 catch	advmod
32	catch	catch	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 feeling	advcl
33	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	32 catch	obj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 continued	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	continue	past			as the chase	vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	begin	past	the poor doe			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
3	show	to-infinitive	the poor doe not said here	signs of exhaustion		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sign=Recipient
4	is	past	Baki		upon doe's heels; who nsubj; close property	tree rules
5	feel	past · progressive			confident property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
6	catch	would	Baki	doe	soon property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Theme
7	sign			exhaustion		nom sign «communication 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 46

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 46