Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 7
So saying, the old Tiger turned on his side and died.
Who acts: old Tiger · What happens: say, turn, die · To what, where: side · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (old 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 turned | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Tiger | det |
| 5 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 Tiger | amod |
| 6 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | nsubj |
| 7 | turned | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | on | on | ADP | _ | 10 side | case |
| 9 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 side | nmod:poss |
| 10 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 turned | obl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 died | cc |
| 12 | died | die | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 turned | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 turned | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | the old Tiger not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn | past | the old Tiger | death's side | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on side=Trajectory | ||||
| 3 | die | past | the old Tiger not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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