Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 48
But when I became old and too infirm for further work, he turned me out into the jungle to fend for myself as best I could.
Who acts: I, attendant · What happens: become, turn out, fend · To what, where: me, jungle, best
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, attendant), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 14 turned | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 became | advmod |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 became | nsubj |
| 4 | became | become | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 turned | advcl |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 became | xcomp |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 infirm | cc |
| 7 | too | too | ADV | _ | 8 infirm | advmod |
| 8 | infirm | infirm | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 old | conj |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 work | case |
| 10 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 work | amod |
| 11 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 infirm | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 became | punct |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | nsubj |
| 14 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 turned | obj |
| 16 | out | out | ADP | _ | 14 turned | compound:prt |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 19 jungle | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 jungle | det |
| 19 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 turned | obl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 fend | mark |
| 21 | fend | fend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 turned | advcl |
| 22 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 best | case |
| 23 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 25 best | nsubj |
| 24 | as | as | ADV | _ | 25 best | advmod |
| 25 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 21 fend | obj |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 could | nsubj |
| 27 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 best | parataxis |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | become | past | I | old property | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | turn out | past | attendant | me | the jungle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location i=Theme | |||
| 3 | fend | to-infinitive | attendant not said here | best myself | tree rules |
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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