Folk tales from Tibet, How He Found the Lost Turquoise., sentence 34
Early next morning the pigs belonging to the place began to poke about the yard and the manure heap, and several of them, as they passed, rooted at his head with their snouts to see if he was anything good to eat.
Who acts: pigs, slank · What happens: belong, begin, poke, pass, root, see · To what, where: several, head, anything
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 (pigs, slank), 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 | Early | early | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | advmod |
| 2 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 morning | amod |
| 3 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 began | obl |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 pigs | det |
| 5 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 began | nsubj |
| 6 | belonging | belong | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 pigs | acl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 place | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 place | det |
| 9 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 belonging | obl |
| 10 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 poke | mark |
| 12 | poke | poke | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 began | xcomp |
| 13 | about | about | ADP | _ | 15 yard | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 yard | det |
| 15 | yard | yard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 poke | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 heap | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 heap | det |
| 18 | manure | manure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 heap | compound |
| 19 | heap | heap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 yard | conj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 several | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 several | cc |
| 22 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 began | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 them | case |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 several | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 passed | punct |
| 26 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 28 passed | mark |
| 27 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 passed | nsubj |
| 28 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 began | parataxis |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 rooted | punct |
| 30 | rooted | root | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 passed | parataxis |
| 31 | at | at | ADP | _ | 33 head | case |
| 32 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 head | nmod:poss |
| 33 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 rooted | obl |
| 34 | with | with | ADP | _ | 36 snouts | case |
| 35 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 snouts | nmod:poss |
| 36 | snouts | snout | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 head | nmod |
| 37 | to | to | PART | _ | 38 see | mark |
| 38 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 rooted | advcl |
| 39 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 42 anything | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 anything | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 anything | cop |
| 42 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 38 see | obj |
| 43 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 anything | amod |
| 44 | to | to | PART | _ | 45 eat | mark |
| 45 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 43 good | xcomp |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | belong | gerund | the pigs not said here | to the place | vn attend-107.4-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the pigs | several of yard | morning | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | poke | to-infinitive | the pigs not said here | about the yard and the manure heap | vn rummage-35.5 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent about yard=Location | ||||
| 4 | pass | past | pigs = pig | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | root | participle | slank's head with pigs's snouts | vn rummage-35.5-1 «NP V PP.location PP.theme»: agent=Agent at head=Location | |||||
| 6 | see | to-infinitive | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||||
| 7 | is a a condition, not said to happen | past | slank | anything | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | eat | to-infinitive | slank not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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