Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 21
In trying to catch a fox last night he lost his horse, his gun, his sword, his dog, and even his clothes, and now he has not the least idea where to find them.”
Who acts: Father · What happens: try, catch, lose, have, find · To what, where: gun, fox, horse, least idea, clothes
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 (Father), 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 | In | in | SCONJ | _ | 2 trying | mark |
| 2 | trying | try | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 catch | mark |
| 4 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 trying | xcomp |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 fox | det |
| 6 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catch | obj |
| 7 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 night | amod |
| 8 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 catch | obl:unmarked |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 lost | nsubj |
| 10 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 night | acl:relcl |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 horse | nmod:poss |
| 12 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lost | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 trying | punct |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 gun | nmod:poss |
| 15 | gun | gun | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 trying | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 sword | punct |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 sword | nmod:poss |
| 18 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gun | conj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 dog | punct |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 dog | nmod:poss |
| 21 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 gun | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 clothes | punct |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 clothes | cc |
| 24 | even | even | ADV | _ | 26 clothes | advmod |
| 25 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 clothes | nmod:poss |
| 26 | clothes | clothes | NOUN | Number=Ptan | 15 gun | conj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 has | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 has | cc |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 31 has | advmod |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 has | nsubj |
| 31 | has | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 trying | parataxis |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 35 idea | advmod |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 idea | det |
| 34 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 35 idea | amod |
| 35 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 has | obj |
| 36 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 38 find | advmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 find | mark |
| 38 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 idea | acl:relcl |
| 39 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 find | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 trying | punct |
| 41 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 trying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | try | gerund | Father's gun and Father's sword and Father's dog and Father's clothes | vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | catch not said to happen | to-infinitive | a fox | night | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fox=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lose | past | Father | Father's horse | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent horse=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | have | present | Father | the least idea | now | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | |||
| 5 | find | to-infinitive | Father not said here | clothes | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Topic |
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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