Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 72

When the Musk Deer heard this she was much downhearted, and fully expected to be killed and eaten without further delay; but she begged the Tiger to give her one more chance, saying that she was fully prepared to abide by the opinion of the third person whom they met.

Who acts: Musk, places · What happens: hear, be, expect, kill, eat, beg · To what, where: this, Tiger, one more chance, Musk, third person · 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 (Musk, places), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	5 heard	advmod
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 Musk	det
3	Musk	musk	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 heard	nsubj
4	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 Musk	appos
5	heard	hear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	26 begged	advcl
6	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 heard	obj
7	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 downhearted	nsubj
8	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 downhearted	cop
9	much	much	ADV	_	10 downhearted	advmod
10	downhearted	downhearted	ADJ	Degree=Pos	5 heard	parataxis
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 expected	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	14 expected	cc
13	fully	fully	ADV	_	14 expected	advmod
14	expected	expect	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	10 downhearted	conj
15	to	to	PART	_	17 killed	mark
16	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 killed	aux:pass
17	killed	kill	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	14 expected	xcomp
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 eaten	cc
19	eaten	eat	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 killed	conj
20	without	without	ADP	_	22 delay	case
21	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 delay	amod
22	delay	delay	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 eaten	obl
23	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 begged	punct
24	but	but	CCONJ	_	26 begged	cc
25	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	26 begged	nsubj
26	begged	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
27	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	28 Tiger	det
28	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	26 begged	obj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 give	mark
30	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 begged	ccomp
31	her	she	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 give	iobj
32	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	34 chance	nummod
33	more	more	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	34 chance	amod
34	chance	chance	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 give	obj
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	36 saying	punct
36	saying	say	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 give	advcl
37	that	that	SCONJ	_	41 prepared	mark
38	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	41 prepared	nsubj
39	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	41 prepared	aux:pass
40	fully	fully	ADV	_	41 prepared	advmod
41	prepared	prepare	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	36 saying	ccomp
42	to	to	PART	_	43 abide	mark
43	abide	abide	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	41 prepared	xcomp
44	by	by	ADP	_	46 opinion	case
45	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	46 opinion	det
46	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 abide	obl
47	of	of	ADP	_	50 person	case
48	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	50 person	det
49	third	third	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	50 person	amod
50	person	person	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 opinion	nmod
51	whom	whom	PRON	PronType=Rel	53 met	obj
52	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	53 met	nsubj
53	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	50 person	acl:relcl
54	.	.	PUNCT	_	26 begged	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	hear	past	the Musk	this			vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus
2	is	past	Musk			downhearted property	tree rules
3	expect	participle	Musk not said here			fully property	vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	kill not said to happen	to-infinitive · passive	Musk not said here				vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»
5	eat	participle	Musk not said here			without further delay	vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	beg speech: request	past	Musk		the Tiger		vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent tiger=Recipient clause=Topic
7	give not said to happen	to-infinitive		one more chance	Musk		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent she=Recipient chance=Theme
8	say speech: assert	gerund					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9	prepare	past · passive		Musk		fully property	vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute
10	abide not said to happen	to-infinitive				by the opinion of the third person	tree rules
11	meet	past	places = place	the third person			vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent whom=Co-Agent
12	opine			the third person			nom opinion «cognition transitive»: of=patient

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 72

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 72