Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 2
Two or three days passed away and the Tiger was in a sorry state, when, as he was peering through a chink in the logs he saw a little Musk Deer, which had come down to drink at the stream which was close by.
Who acts: Tiger, little Musk, stream · What happens: pass away, be, peer, see, come down, drink · To what, where: Two days, sorry state, little Musk, stream
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 (Tiger, little Musk, stream), 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 | Two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 4 days | nummod |
| 2 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 3 three | cc |
| 3 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 1 Two | conj |
| 4 | days | day | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 5 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 days | acl |
| 6 | away | away | ADV | _ | 5 passed | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 state | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Tiger | det |
| 9 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 state | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 state | cop |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 state | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 state | det |
| 13 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 state | amod |
| 14 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 days | conj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 peering | punct |
| 16 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 21 peering | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 peering | punct |
| 18 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 21 peering | mark |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 peering | nsubj |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 peering | aux |
| 21 | peering | peer | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 state | acl |
| 22 | through | through | ADP | _ | 24 chink | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 chink | det |
| 24 | chink | chink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 peering | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 logs | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 logs | det |
| 27 | logs | log | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 peering | obl |
| 28 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 27 logs | acl:relcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 Musk | det |
| 31 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 Musk | amod |
| 32 | Musk | musk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 saw | obj |
| 33 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 32 Musk | appos |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 come | punct |
| 35 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 come | nsubj |
| 36 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 come | aux |
| 37 | come | come | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 32 Musk | conj |
| 38 | down | down | ADV | _ | 37 come | advmod |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 40 drink | mark |
| 40 | drink | drink | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 come | advcl |
| 41 | at | at | ADP | _ | 43 stream | case |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 stream | det |
| 43 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 drink | obl |
| 44 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 46 close | nsubj |
| 45 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 close | cop |
| 46 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 stream | acl:relcl |
| 47 | by | by | ADP | _ | 46 close | obl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 days | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass away | participle | Two days and a sorry state not said here | away property | vn die-42.4-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 2 | is | past | the Tiger | a sorry state | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | peer | past · progressive | Tiger | in the logs; through a chink | vn peer-30.3 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent through chink=Theme | ||||
| 4 | see | past | Tiger | a little Musk | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer musk=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | come down | past · perfect | a little Musk | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | drink | to-infinitive | a little Musk not said here | the stream | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | is | past | the stream | close 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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