Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 8
The three young Tigers listened respectfully to the words of their dying parent and promised to obey; and the elder brothers, who were obedient sons, were careful to follow his advice.
Who acts: three, elder brothers · What happens: listen, die, promise, obey, be, follow · To what, where: elder brothers, obedient sons, advice, dying parent
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 (three, elder brothers), 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 three | det |
| 2 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 listened | nsubj |
| 3 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 Tigers | amod |
| 4 | Tigers | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Plur | 5 listened | nsubj |
| 5 | listened | listen | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | respectfully | respectfully | ADV | _ | 5 listened | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 words | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 words | det |
| 9 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 listened | obl |
| 10 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 parent | case |
| 11 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 parent | nmod:poss |
| 12 | dying | die | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 parent | amod |
| 13 | parent | parent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 words | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 promised | cc |
| 15 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 listened | conj |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 obey | mark |
| 17 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 promised | xcomp |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 brothers | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 brothers | cc |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 brothers | det |
| 21 | elder | elder | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 brothers | amod |
| 22 | brothers | brother | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 listened | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 sons | punct |
| 24 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 sons | nsubj |
| 25 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 sons | cop |
| 26 | obedient | obedient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sons | amod |
| 27 | sons | son | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 brothers | appos |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 careful | punct |
| 29 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 30 careful | cop |
| 30 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 sons | conj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 follow | mark |
| 32 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 careful | xcomp |
| 33 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 advice | nmod:poss |
| 34 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 follow | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 listened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | listen | past | the three | the elder brothers | to the words of Tigers's dying parent; young Tigers nsubj; respectfully property | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent to word=Theme | |||
| 2 | die | gerund | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | past | the three not said here | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | obey not said to happen | to-infinitive | the three not said here | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is a | past | the elder brothers | obedient sons | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | is | past | the elder brothers not said here | careful property | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | follow | to-infinitive | the elder brothers not said here | parent's advice | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 8 | word | Tigers's dying parent | nom word «communication 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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