Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 2
The Father Tiger grew old and began to fail, and just before his death he sent for his three children and addressed them as follows:
Who acts: Father Tiger, death, his · What happens: grow, begin, fail, send, address, follow · To what, where: Tigers
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 (Father Tiger, death, his), 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 | Father | Father | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Tiger | compound |
| 3 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 grew | nsubj |
| 4 | grew | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 grew | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 began | cc |
| 7 | began | begin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 fail | mark |
| 9 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 began | xcomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sent | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 sent | cc |
| 12 | just | just | ADV | _ | 15 death | advmod |
| 13 | before | before | ADP | _ | 15 death | case |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 death | nmod:poss |
| 15 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 sent | nsubj |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sent | nsubj |
| 17 | sent | send | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 18 | for | for | ADP | _ | 21 children | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 children | nmod:poss |
| 20 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 children | nummod |
| 21 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 sent | obl |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 addressed | cc |
| 23 | addressed | address | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 grew | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 addressed | obj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 26 follows | mark |
| 26 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 addressed | advcl |
| 27 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 4 grew | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | past | the Father Tiger | old property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | begin | past | the Father Tiger not said here | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | fail | to-infinitive | the Father Tiger not said here | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | send | past | his death | for death's three children | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | address | past | the Father Tiger not said here | Tigers = tiger | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Destination | ||||
| 6 | follow | present | the Father Tiger not said here | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | die | his = he | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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