Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 13
I am told that he is but a defenceless creature, that his strength cannot be compared to mine, and that his claws and teeth are quite contemptible.
Who acts: neighbourhood, claws · What happens: tell, be, not compare · To what, where: I, defenceless creature, strength, mine · Speech: someone speaks here
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, claws), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 told | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 told | aux:pass |
| 3 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 creature | mark |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 creature | nsubj |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 creature | cop |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 creature | cc |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 creature | det |
| 9 | defenceless | defenceless | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 10 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 told | ccomp |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 compared | punct |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 compared | mark |
| 13 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 strength | nmod:poss |
| 14 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 compared | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 compared | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 compared | advmod |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 compared | aux:pass |
| 18 | compared | compare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 told | conj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 mine | case |
| 20 | mine | my | PRON | Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 compared | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 contemptible | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 contemptible | cc |
| 23 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 30 contemptible | mark |
| 24 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 claws | nmod:poss |
| 25 | claws | claw | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 contemptible | nsubj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 teeth | cc |
| 27 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 claws | conj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 30 contemptible | cop |
| 29 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 30 contemptible | advmod |
| 30 | contemptible | contemptible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 told | conj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 told | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | I | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | |||||
| 2 | is a | present | neighbourhood | a defenceless creature | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | not compare | can · passive | neighbourhood's strength | mine | vn amalgamate-22.2-2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | is | present | neighbourhood's claws and teeth | contemptible property | tree rules |
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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