Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 45
He put a saddle on my back and made stirrups of my ears, and he used to strike me over my head with an iron goad.
Who acts: Lord · What happens: put, make, use, strike · To what, where: saddle, back, stirrups, me, head
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 (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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 put | nsubj |
| 2 | put | put | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 saddle | det |
| 4 | saddle | saddle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obj |
| 5 | on | on | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 put | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 made | cc |
| 9 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 10 | stirrups | stirrup | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 made | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 ears | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 ears | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ears | ear | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 stirrups | nmod |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 used | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 used | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 used | nsubj |
| 17 | used | use | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 2 put | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 strike | mark |
| 19 | strike | strike | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 used | xcomp |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 strike | obj |
| 21 | over | over | ADP | _ | 23 head | case |
| 22 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 head | nmod:poss |
| 23 | head | head | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strike | obl |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 goad | case |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 goad | det |
| 26 | iron | iron | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 goad | amod |
| 27 | goad | goad | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 strike | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | past | Lord | a saddle | my back | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V PP.destination NP»: agent=Agent saddle=Theme on back=Destination | |||
| 2 | make | past | Lord not said here | stirrups of my ears | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset stirrup=Product | ||||
| 3 | use | past | Lord | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | strike | to-infinitive | Lord not said here | me | my head | with a iron goad | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent i=Patient with goad=Instrument |
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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