Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 67

Whereas I, although I am so much weaker than you, can build myself a fine house, where I live at my ease, indifferent to the weather and secure from the attacks of wild animals.”

Who acts: I · What happens: be, build, live, secure, attack · To what, where: myself, ease, attacks, wild animals

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), 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	Whereas	whereas	SCONJ	_	2 I	case
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 weaker	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 weaker	punct
4	although	although	SCONJ	_	9 weaker	mark
5	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 weaker	nsubj
6	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	9 weaker	cop
7	so	so	ADV	_	8 much	advmod
8	much	much	ADV	_	9 weaker	advmod
9	weaker	weak	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	root	root
10	than	than	ADP	_	11 you	case
11	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 weaker	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 build	punct
13	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 build	aux
14	build	build	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	9 weaker	parataxis
15	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	14 build	obj
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	18 house	det
17	fine	fine	ADJ	Degree=Pos	18 house	amod
18	house	house	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 build	obj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 live	punct
20	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	22 live	advmod
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	22 live	nsubj
22	live	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	14 build	parataxis
23	at	at	ADP	_	25 ease	case
24	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	25 ease	nmod:poss
25	ease	ease	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 live	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 indifferent	punct
27	indifferent	indifferent	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 ease	amod
28	to	to	ADP	_	30 weather	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 weather	det
30	weather	weather	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 indifferent	obl
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	32 secure	cc
32	secure	secure	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	22 live	conj
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 attacks	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 attacks	det
35	attacks	attack	NOUN	Number=Plur	32 secure	obl
36	of	of	ADP	_	38 animals	case
37	wild	wild	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 animals	amod
38	animals	animal	NOUN	Number=Plur	35 attacks	nmod
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 weaker	punct
40	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 weaker	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	I			than you; weak property	tree rules
2	build	can		myself		a fine house obj	vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset myself=Beneficiary house=Product
3	live	present	I		my ease		vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at ease=Location
4	secure	infinitive	I not said here		the attacks of wild animals		vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from attack=Source
5	attack			wild animals			nom attack «act 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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 67

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 67