Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 28
“The case is this,” replied the Musk Deer, “a short while ago I found this Tiger shut up in a Woodcutter’s hut in the forest, unable to get out.
Who acts: case, Tiger · What happens: be, reply, find, shut up, get out · To what, where: this, Musk, Tiger, hut · 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 (case, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 case | det |
| 3 | case | case | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 this | cop |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 case | nmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 case | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 case | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Musk | det |
| 10 | Musk | musk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 11 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Musk | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 found | punct |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 while | det |
| 15 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 while | amod |
| 16 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 ago | obl:unmarked |
| 17 | ago | ago | ADV | _ | 19 found | advmod |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 found | nsubj |
| 19 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 replied | parataxis |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 21 Tiger | det |
| 21 | Tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 found | obj |
| 22 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 21 Tiger | acl |
| 23 | up | up | ADP | _ | 22 shut | compound:prt |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 hut | case |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 Woodcutter | det |
| 26 | Woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 hut | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Woodcutter | case |
| 28 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shut | obl |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 forest | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 forest | det |
| 31 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 shut | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 unable | punct |
| 33 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 found | conj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 get | mark |
| 35 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 33 unable | xcomp |
| 36 | out | out | ADV | _ | 35 get | advmod |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | this | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the case | the Musk | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | find in a quote | past | the case = case | this Tiger | ago property | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tiger=Topic | |||
| 4 | shut up in a quote | participle | this Tiger not said here | a Woodcutter's hut | in the forest | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | get out in a quote | to-infinitive | this Tiger not said here | out property | vn withdraw-82-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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