Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 19
The young Tiger had never seen a Bullock before, and he regarded the creature with some curiosity.
Who acts: young Tiger, Bullock · What happens: not see, regard · To what, where: Bullock, creature
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 (young Tiger, Bullock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Tiger | det |
| 2 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Tiger | amod |
| 3 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | nsubj |
| 4 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | aux |
| 5 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 6 seen | advmod |
| 6 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 Bullock | det |
| 8 | Bullock | bullock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 seen | obj |
| 9 | before | before | ADV | _ | 6 seen | advmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 regarded | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 regarded | cc |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 regarded | nsubj |
| 13 | regarded | regard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 seen | conj |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 creature | det |
| 15 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 regarded | obj |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 18 curiosity | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 curiosity | det |
| 18 | curiosity | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 regarded | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 seen | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not see | past · perfect | the young Tiger | a Bullock | before property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer bullock=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | regard | past | Bullock | the creature | with some curiosity | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=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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