Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 14
The dog, on seeing the fox go off, at once started in full pursuit; and the horse, excited by the dog’s cries, galloped off after the pair, and in a few moments all three were lost to sight in the gathering darkness.
Who acts: dog · What happens: see, go off, start, gallop off, lose, cry · To what, where: fox, horse, full pursuit, cries, gathering darkness
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Found the Lost Turquoise.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog), 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 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dog | punct |
| 4 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 5 seeing | mark |
| 5 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 dog | acl |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 fox | det |
| 7 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 seeing | obj |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | off | off | ADP | _ | 8 go | compound:prt |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 started | punct |
| 11 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 13 started | mark |
| 12 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 13 started | advmod |
| 13 | started | start | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | advcl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 pursuit | case |
| 15 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pursuit | amod |
| 16 | pursuit | pursuit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 started | obl |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 horse | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 horse | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 horse | det |
| 20 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 excited | punct |
| 22 | excited | excited | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 horse | amod |
| 23 | by | by | ADP | _ | 27 cries | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 dog | det |
| 25 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 cries | nmod:poss |
| 26 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 25 dog | case |
| 27 | cries | cry | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 excited | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 galloped | punct |
| 29 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 cries | acl |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 galloped | compound:prt |
| 31 | after | after | ADP | _ | 33 pair | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 pair | det |
| 33 | pair | pair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 galloped | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 lost | punct |
| 35 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 lost | cc |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 moments | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 moments | det |
| 38 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 moments | amod |
| 39 | moments | moment | NOUN | Number=Plur | 43 lost | obl |
| 40 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 41 three | det |
| 41 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 39 moments | nmod |
| 42 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 lost | aux:pass |
| 43 | lost | lose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 22 excited | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 sight | case |
| 45 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lost | obl |
| 46 | in | in | ADP | _ | 49 darkness | case |
| 47 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 darkness | det |
| 48 | gathering | gathering | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 darkness | compound |
| 49 | darkness | darkness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 lost | obl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the dog not said here | the fox | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fox=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | go off | infinitive | the dog | the horse | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | start | past | the dog not said here | full pursuit | once property | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP.eventuality V»: agent=Eventuality | |||
| 4 | gallop off | participle | the dog's cries not said here | after the pair | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | lose | past · passive | the dog not said here | the gathering darkness | moment | to sight | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: in darkness=Eventuality | ||
| 6 | cry | the dog | nom cry «communication 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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