Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 1
Once upon a time there were two Tigers who lived in a certain forest and had a family of three children.
Who acts: two Tigers · What happens: be, live, have · To what, where: certain forest, family
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (two Tigers), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 were | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 were | obl |
| 5 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 6 were | expl |
| 6 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | advcl |
| 7 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 Tigers | nummod |
| 8 | Tigers | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Plur | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 9 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lived | nsubj |
| 10 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 forest | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 forest | det |
| 13 | certain | certain | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 forest | amod |
| 14 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lived | obl |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 had | cc |
| 16 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 10 lived | conj |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 family | det |
| 18 | family | family | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 had | obj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 children | case |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 children | nummod |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 family | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | two Tigers not said here | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||
| 2 | live | past | two Tigers | a certain forest | who nsubj | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in forest=Location | |||
| 3 | have | past | two Tigers not said here | a family of three children | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent family=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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