Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 54
“Well,” said the Deer, “this Tiger was shut up in a hut in the forest, and being unable to open the door, he was in danger of starving to death.
Who acts: Deer, Tiger, danger · What happens: say, shut up, be, open, starve · To what, where: Tiger, hut, door, danger · 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 (Deer, Tiger, danger), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Deer | det |
| 7 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 shut | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 shut | punct |
| 10 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 Tiger | det |
| 11 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 shut | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 shut | aux:pass |
| 13 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 said | conj |
| 14 | up | up | ADP | _ | 13 shut | compound:prt |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 hut | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 hut | det |
| 17 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shut | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 forest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 forest | det |
| 20 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 shut | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 unable | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 unable | cc |
| 23 | being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 24 unable | cop |
| 24 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 open | mark |
| 26 | open | open | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 unable | xcomp |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 door | det |
| 28 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 open | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 danger | punct |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 danger | nsubj |
| 31 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 33 danger | cop |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 danger | case |
| 33 | danger | danger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 unable | parataxis |
| 34 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 35 starving | mark |
| 35 | starving | starve | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 33 danger | acl |
| 36 | to | to | ADP | _ | 37 death | case |
| 37 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 starving | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Deer | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | shut up in a quote | past · passive | this Tiger | a hut | in the forest | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | gerund | unable property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | open in a quote | to-infinitive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | past | Tiger | danger | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | starve in a quote | gerund | danger not said here | to death | 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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