Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 18
He had not proceeded very far when he met an old, worn-out pack-Bullock, thin and emaciated, and with the marks of many ancient scars on his back.
Who acts: neighbourhood · What happens: not proceed, meet, emaciate, mark · To what, where: old out pack, many ancient scars
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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 proceeded | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 proceeded | advmod |
| 4 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | very | very | ADV | _ | 6 far | advmod |
| 6 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 4 proceeded | advmod |
| 7 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 9 met | advmod |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 met | nsubj |
| 9 | met | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 proceeded | advcl |
| 10 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 pack | det |
| 11 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pack | amod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 old | punct |
| 13 | worn | worn | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 out | amod |
| 14 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 13 worn | punct |
| 15 | out | out | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 pack | amod |
| 16 | pack | pack | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 met | obj |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 18 Bullock | punct |
| 18 | Bullock | Bullock | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 pack | appos |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 thin | punct |
| 20 | thin | thin | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 Bullock | amod |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 emaciated | cc |
| 22 | emaciated | emaciate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 20 thin | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 marks | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 marks | cc |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 marks | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 marks | det |
| 27 | marks | mark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 proceeded | obl |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 scars | case |
| 29 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 scars | amod |
| 30 | ancient | ancient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 scars | amod |
| 31 | scars | scar | NOUN | Number=Plur | 27 marks | nmod |
| 32 | on | on | ADP | _ | 34 back | case |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 back | nmod:poss |
| 34 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 scars | nmod |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not proceed | past · perfect | neighbourhood | with the marks of many ancient scars on neighbourhood's back; far property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | meet | past | neighbourhood | a old out pack | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent pack=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | emaciate | participle | neighbourhood not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | |||||
| 4 | mark | many ancient scars on neighbourhood's back | nom mark «cognition transitive»: of=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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