Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 60
The Tiger thought that this was a good idea, so he followed the Man through the jungle until they came to the Man’s house, which was strongly built of timber and heavy logs.
Who acts: Tiger, this, Woodcutter, Man · What happens: think, be, follow, come, build · To what, where: good idea, Man, jungle, house
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 (Tiger, this, Woodcutter, Man), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tiger | det |
| 2 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 9 idea | mark |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 9 idea | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 idea | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 idea | det |
| 8 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 idea | amod |
| 9 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 thought | ccomp |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 followed | punct |
| 11 | so | so | ADV | _ | 13 followed | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 followed | nsubj |
| 13 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 thought | parataxis |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Man | det |
| 15 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | obj |
| 16 | through | through | ADP | _ | 18 jungle | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 jungle | det |
| 18 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 followed | obl |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 21 came | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 came | nsubj |
| 21 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 followed | advcl |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 26 house | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 Man | det |
| 24 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 house | nmod:poss |
| 25 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 24 Man | case |
| 26 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 came | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 built | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 31 built | nsubj:pass |
| 29 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 built | aux:pass |
| 30 | strongly | strongly | ADV | _ | 31 built | advmod |
| 31 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 house | acl |
| 32 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 timber | case |
| 33 | timber | timber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 built | obl |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 logs | cc |
| 35 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 logs | amod |
| 36 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 33 timber | conj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | the Tiger | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | this | a good idea | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | follow | past | Woodcutter | the Man | the jungle | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent man=Theme through jungle=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | come | past | Man | the Man's house | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to house=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | build | past · passive | the Man's house | of timber and heavy logs; strongly property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=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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