Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 11
As he grew older and stronger he began to chafe against the restriction that had been imposed upon him.
Who acts: neighbourhood · What happens: grow, begin, chafe, impose · To what, where: restriction
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 (neighbourhood), 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 | SCONJ | _ | 3 grew | mark |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 grew | nsubj |
| 3 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 began | advcl |
| 4 | older | old | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 grew | xcomp |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 6 stronger | cc |
| 6 | stronger | strong | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 older | conj |
| 7 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 began | nsubj |
| 8 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 chafe | mark |
| 10 | chafe | chafe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 began | xcomp |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 restriction | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 restriction | det |
| 13 | restriction | restriction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 chafe | obl |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 imposed | obj |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 17 imposed | aux |
| 16 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 imposed | aux:pass |
| 17 | imposed | impose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 13 restriction | acl:relcl |
| 18 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 imposed | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 began | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | neighbourhood | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | neighbourhood | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | chafe | to-infinitive | neighbourhood not said here | against the restriction | vn marvel-31.3 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | impose | past · perfect · passive | the restriction | upon neighbourhood | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: that=Theme |
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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