Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 47
The poor Musk Deer was much cast down on hearing these words, and she and the Tiger moved on together till, a little farther along the road, they caught sight of a Cow Buffalo and her Calf grazing quietly in a field of succulent grass.
Who acts: Musk, words · What happens: cast down, hear, move, catch, sight, graze · To what, where: poor Musk, words, till, sight, field, Cow Buffalo
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 (Musk, words), 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 | 3 Musk | det |
| 2 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 Musk | amod |
| 3 | Musk | musk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 cast | nsubj:pass |
| 4 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 Musk | appos |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cast | aux:pass |
| 6 | much | much | ADV | _ | 7 cast | advmod |
| 7 | cast | cast | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | down | down | ADP | _ | 7 cast | compound:prt |
| 9 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 10 hearing | mark |
| 10 | hearing | hear | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 cast | advcl |
| 11 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 12 words | det |
| 12 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 hearing | obj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 moved | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 moved | cc |
| 15 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 moved | nsubj |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 Tiger | cc |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Tiger | det |
| 18 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 she | conj |
| 19 | moved | move | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 cast | conj |
| 20 | on | on | ADP | _ | 22 till | case |
| 21 | together | together | ADV | _ | 22 till | advmod |
| 22 | till | till | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 moved | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 farther | punct |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 little | det |
| 25 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 farther | obl |
| 26 | farther | far | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 19 moved | advmod |
| 27 | along | along | ADP | _ | 29 road | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 road | det |
| 29 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 farther | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 caught | punct |
| 31 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 caught | nsubj |
| 32 | caught | catch | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 moved | conj |
| 33 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 caught | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Buffalo | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 Buffalo | det |
| 36 | Cow | Cow | PROPN | Number=Sing | 37 Buffalo | compound |
| 37 | Buffalo | Buffalo | PROPN | Number=Sing | 33 sight | nmod |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 grazing | cc |
| 39 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 grazing | nmod:poss |
| 40 | Calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 grazing | compound |
| 41 | grazing | grazing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 caught | conj |
| 42 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 32 caught | advmod |
| 43 | in | in | ADP | _ | 45 field | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 field | det |
| 45 | field | field | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 caught | obl |
| 46 | of | of | ADP | _ | 48 grass | case |
| 47 | succulent | succulent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 48 grass | amod |
| 48 | grass | grass | NOUN | Number=Sing | 45 field | nmod |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 cast | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | cast down | past · passive | the poor Musk | vn build-26.1 «NP V NP»: subject=Product | |||||
| 2 | hear | gerund | this words | vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer word=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | move | past | Musk | till | far property | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V PP.trajectory»: agent=Theme on till=Trajectory | |||
| 4 | catch | past | words = word | sight of a Cow Buffalo | a field of succulent grass | Musk's Calf grazing conj; quietly property | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent sight=Theme | ||
| 5 | sight | a Cow Buffalo | nom sight «cognition transitive»: of=patient | ||||||
| 6 | graze | Musk | nom grazing «act transitive»: poss=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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