Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 66
You poor animals live in a hole in the forest, exposed to wind, rain, cold and heat; and all your strength is of no value to make a house like this.
Who acts: You, forest, strength · What happens: live, expose, be, make · To what, where: hole, wind, 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 (You, forest, strength), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 live | nsubj |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 animals | amod |
| 3 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 You | conj |
| 4 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 hole | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 hole | det |
| 7 | hole | hole | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 forest | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 forest | det |
| 10 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 hole | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 exposed | punct |
| 12 | exposed | expose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 forest | acl |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 wind | mark |
| 14 | wind | wind | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 exposed | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 rain | punct |
| 16 | rain | rain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 wind | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 cold | punct |
| 18 | cold | cold | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 wind | conj |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 heat | cc |
| 20 | heat | heat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 cold | conj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 value | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 all | cc |
| 23 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 25 strength | det:predet |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 strength | nmod:poss |
| 25 | strength | strength | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 value | nsubj |
| 26 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 value | cop |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 value | case |
| 28 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 29 value | det |
| 29 | value | value | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 live | parataxis |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 make | mark |
| 31 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 value | acl |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 house | det |
| 33 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 make | obj |
| 34 | like | like | ADP | _ | 35 this | case |
| 35 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 33 house | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 live | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | present | You | a hole in the forest | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hole=Location | ||||
| 2 | expose | participle | the forest not said here | wind and rain | vn indicate-78 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot wind=Topic | ||||
| 3 | is | present | your strength | of no value | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | make | to-infinitive | You not said here | a house | like this | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset house=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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