Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 30

While I was young and strong he cared for me and valued me highly; but as soon as I became old and weak, and was no longer able to do his work, he turned me out into this wild jungle to seek my food as best I might, and gave no thought for me in my old age.

Who acts: I, Bullock · What happens: be, care, value, become, do, turn out · To what, where: me, work, wild jungle, food, thought, old age

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 (I, 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	While	while	SCONJ	_	4 young	mark
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 young	nsubj
3	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	4 young	cop
4	young	young	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 became	advcl
5	and	and	CCONJ	_	6 strong	cc
6	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	4 young	conj
7	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	8 cared	nsubj
8	cared	care	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 strong	acl:relcl
9	for	for	ADP	_	10 me	case
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	8 cared	obl
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 valued	cc
12	valued	value	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	8 cared	conj
13	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	12 valued	obj
14	highly	highly	ADV	_	12 valued	advmod
15	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct
16	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 became	cc
17	as	as	ADV	_	18 soon	advmod
18	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	21 became	advmod
19	as	as	SCONJ	_	21 became	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 became	nsubj
21	became	become	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
22	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 became	xcomp
23	and	and	CCONJ	_	24 weak	cc
24	weak	weak	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 old	conj
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 able	punct
26	and	and	CCONJ	_	30 able	cc
27	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	30 able	cop
28	no	no	ADV	_	29 longer	advmod
29	longer	long	ADV	Degree=Cmp	30 able	advmod
30	able	able	ADJ	Degree=Pos	21 became	conj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 do	mark
32	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	30 able	xcomp
33	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 work	nmod:poss
34	work	work	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 do	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 turned	punct
36	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	37 turned	nsubj
37	turned	turn	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 became	conj
38	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 turned	obj
39	out	out	ADP	_	37 turned	compound:prt
40	into	into	ADP	_	43 jungle	case
41	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	43 jungle	det
42	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	43 jungle	amod
43	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 turned	obl
44	to	to	PART	_	45 seek	mark
45	seek	seek	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	37 turned	conj
46	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	47 food	nmod:poss
47	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	45 seek	obj
48	as	as	ADP	_	49 best	case
49	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	45 seek	parataxis
50	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	51 might	nsubj
51	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 best	parataxis
52	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 gave	punct
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 gave	cc
54	gave	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	21 became	conj
55	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	56 thought	det
56	thought	thought	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 gave	obj
57	for	for	ADP	_	58 me	case
58	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	54 gave	obl
59	in	in	ADP	_	62 age	case
60	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	62 age	nmod:poss
61	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	62 age	amod
62	age	age	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 gave	obl
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	21 became	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	I				young property	tree rules
2	be		I not said here					tree rules
3	care	past	Bullock				for me	vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for i=Theme
4	value	past	Bullock not said here	me			highly property	vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer i=Stimulus
5	become	past	I				old, soon property	vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient
6	is	past	I not said here				able, long property	tree rules
7	do	to-infinitive	I not said here	Bullock's work				vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality
8	turn out	past	Bullock	me	this wild jungle			vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme
9	seek	to-infinitive	Bullock not said here	my food				vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent food=Theme
10	give	past	I not said here	no thought		in my old age	for me	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent thought=Theme for i=Asset
11	work		Bullock					nom work «act 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 30

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 30