Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 44
Although I am the Lord of the jungle, Man tamed me, and trained me, and made me his servant for many years.
Who acts: I, Lord · What happens: be, tame, train, make · To what, where: Lord, me, servant
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, Lord), 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 | Although | although | SCONJ | _ | 5 Lord | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 Lord | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 Lord | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Lord | det |
| 5 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tamed | nsubj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 jungle | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 jungle | det |
| 8 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 Lord | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Lord | punct |
| 10 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 tamed | nsubj |
| 11 | tamed | tame | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 tamed | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 trained | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 trained | cc |
| 15 | trained | train | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tamed | conj |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 trained | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 made | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 made | cc |
| 19 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 tamed | conj |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 made | obj |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 servant | nmod:poss |
| 22 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 made | obj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 years | case |
| 24 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 years | amod |
| 25 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 tamed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | I | the Lord | of the jungle | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tame | past | the Lord | me | Man nsubj | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||
| 3 | train | past | the Lord not said here | me | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | past | the Lord not said here | Lord's servant | me | year | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary servant=Product |
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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