Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 49
The Tiger and the Deer approached the old Cow, and the Deer, addressing her, said:
Who acts: Tiger, Deer · What happens: approach, address, say · To what, where: old Cow, Cow · 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 (Tiger, Deer), 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 | 2 Tiger | det |
| 2 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 approached | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 Deer | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Deer | det |
| 5 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Tiger | conj |
| 6 | approached | approach | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Cow | det |
| 8 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Cow | amod |
| 9 | Cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 approached | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 said | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Deer | det |
| 13 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 18 said | nsubj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 addressing | punct |
| 15 | addressing | address | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Deer | acl |
| 16 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 addressing | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 Deer | punct |
| 18 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 approached | parataxis |
| 19 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 18 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | approach | past | the Tiger and the Deer | the old Cow | vn confront-98 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=Theme | ||||
| 2 | address | gerund | the Deer not said here | Cow | vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Destination | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | the Deer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: 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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