Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 102
And so saying he shut the door and bolted it; and he and the Deer went on their way safely, leaving the Tiger shut up inside, where he shortly after starved to death.
Who acts: Hare, leaving · What happens: say, shut, bolt, go, leave, shut up · To what, where: door, way, Tiger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, leaving), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 3 saying | cc |
| 2 | so | so | ADV | _ | 3 saying | advmod |
| 3 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 shut | nsubj |
| 5 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | ccomp |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 door | det |
| 7 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 shut | obj |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 bolted | cc |
| 9 | bolted | bolt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 shut | conj |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 bolted | obj |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 17 went | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 went | cc |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 went | nsubj |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 Deer | cc |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Deer | det |
| 16 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 he | conj |
| 17 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | conj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 20 way | case |
| 19 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 way | nmod:poss |
| 20 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 went | obl |
| 21 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 17 went | advmod |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 leaving | punct |
| 23 | leaving | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 26 shut | csubj |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 Tiger | det |
| 25 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 23 leaving | obj |
| 26 | shut | shut | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 saying | ccomp |
| 27 | up | up | ADP | _ | 26 shut | compound:prt |
| 28 | inside | inside | ADV | _ | 26 shut | advmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 starved | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 starved | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 34 starved | nsubj |
| 32 | shortly | shortly | ADV | _ | 34 starved | advmod |
| 33 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 34 starved | mark |
| 34 | starved | starve | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 shut | conj |
| 35 | to | to | ADP | _ | 36 death | case |
| 36 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 starved | obl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 saying | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 2 | shut | past | Hare | the door | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP V NP.patient»: agent=Agent door=Patient | ||||
| 3 | bolt | past | Hare not said here | door | vn gobble-39.3-1 «NP V NP up»: agent=Agent it=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | past | Hare | places's way | safely property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme on way=Location | |||
| 5 | leave | gerund | the Tiger | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Theme | |||||
| 6 | shut up | past | leaving | inside property | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | starve | participle | Hare | to death; shortly property | tree rules |
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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