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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 52

After watching him for some time the Tiger emerged from the jungle, and going up to the Man, he asked what sort of an animal he was.

Who acts: attendant, Tiger · What happens: watch, emerge, go up, ask, sort · To what, where: attendant, time, jungle, sort, animal

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 (attendant, Tiger), 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

markadvclobjcasedetobldetnsubjacl:relclcasedetoblpunctccconjadvmodcasedetoblpunctnsubjdetobjcasedetnmodnsubjacl:relclpunctrootAfterSCONJwatchingVERBhimPRONforADPsomeDETtimeNOUNtheDETTigerPROPNemergedVERBfromADPtheDETjungleNOUN,PUNCTandCCONJgoingVERBupADVtoADPtheDETManNOUN,PUNCThePRONaskedVERBwhatDETsortNOUNofADPanDETanimalNOUNhePRONwasAUX.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1AfterafterSCONJ_2 watchingmark
2watchingwatchVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part22 askedadvcl
3himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs2 watchingobj
4forforADP_6 timecase
5somesomeDETPronType=Ind6 timedet
6timetimeNOUNNumber=Sing2 watchingobl
7thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art8 Tigerdet
8TigerTigerPROPNNumber=Sing9 emergednsubj
9emergedemergeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 timeacl:relcl
10fromfromADP_12 junglecase
11thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art12 jungledet
12junglejungleNOUNNumber=Sing9 emergedobl
13,,PUNCT_2 watchingpunct
14andandCCONJ_15 goingcc
15goinggoVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part2 watchingconj
16upupADV_15 goingadvmod
17totoADP_19 Mancase
18thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art19 Mandet
19ManmanNOUNNumber=Sing15 goingobl
20,,PUNCT_2 watchingpunct
21hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 askednsubj
22askedaskVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
23whatwhatDETPronType=Int24 sortdet
24sortsortNOUNNumber=Sing22 askedobj
25ofofADP_27 animalcase
26anaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 animaldet
27animalanimalNOUNNumber=Sing24 sortnmod
28hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs29 wasnsubj
29wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin27 animalacl:relcl
30..PUNCT_22 askedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1watchgerundattendant not said hereattendanttimevn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
2emergepastthe Tigersome time not said herethe junglevn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location time=Theme
3go upgerundattendant not said hereto the Manvn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
4ask speech: askpastattendantwhat sort of a animalvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent sort=Recipient
5sorta animalnom sort «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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