Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 9
They confined their attentions to the slaughter of deer, pigs, and other denizens of the forest, and were careful, whenever they came within sight or scent of any human being, to clear off as fast as they could from so dangerous a neighbourhood.
Who acts: Tigers · What happens: confine, be, come, attend, slaughter · To what, where: attentions, slaughter, deer
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 (Tigers), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 confined | nsubj |
| 2 | confined | confine | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 attentions | nmod:poss |
| 4 | attentions | attention | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 confined | obj |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 slaughter | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 slaughter | det |
| 7 | slaughter | slaughter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 confined | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 deer | case |
| 9 | deer | deer | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 slaughter | nmod |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 pigs | punct |
| 11 | pigs | pig | NOUN | Number=Plur | 9 deer | conj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 denizens | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 denizens | cc |
| 14 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 denizens | amod |
| 15 | denizens | denizen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 confined | parataxis |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 forest | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 forest | det |
| 18 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 denizens | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 careful | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 careful | cc |
| 21 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 careful | cop |
| 22 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 confined | parataxis |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 came | punct |
| 24 | whenever | whenever | ADV | PronType=Rel | 26 came | advmod |
| 25 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 came | nsubj |
| 26 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 careful | parataxis |
| 27 | within | within | ADP | _ | 28 sight | case |
| 28 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 came | obl |
| 29 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 30 scent | cc |
| 30 | scent | scent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 sight | conj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 any | case |
| 32 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 30 scent | nmod |
| 33 | human | human | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 any | acl |
| 34 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 37 clear | cop |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 clear | punct |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 clear | mark |
| 37 | clear | clear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 human | parataxis |
| 38 | off | off | ADP | _ | 37 clear | compound:prt |
| 39 | as | as | ADV | _ | 40 fast | advmod |
| 40 | fast | fast | ADV | Degree=Pos | 46 dangerous | advmod |
| 41 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 43 could | mark |
| 42 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 could | nsubj |
| 43 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 dangerous | aux |
| 44 | from | from | ADP | _ | 46 dangerous | case |
| 45 | so | so | ADV | _ | 46 dangerous | advmod |
| 46 | dangerous | dangerous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 clear | parataxis |
| 47 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 48 neighbourhood | det |
| 48 | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 dangerous | nsubj |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 confined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | confine | past | Tigers = tiger | Tigers's attentions | the slaughter of deer and pigs | other denizens of the forest parataxis | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent attention=Theme to slaughter=Destination | ||
| 2 | is | past | careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | come | past | Tigers = tiger | within sight or scent of any; whenever property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | is | gerund | clear property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | attend | Tigers = tiger | nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 6 | slaughter | deer and pigs | nom slaughter «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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