Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 77
“Well,” replied the Musk Deer, “the facts are as follows: I was drinking just now at a stream in the forest when I noticed this Tiger shut up in a Woodcutter’s hut.
Who acts: Musk, facts · What happens: reply, be, drink, notice, shut up · To what, where: stream, 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 (Musk, facts), 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 replied | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Musk | det |
| 7 | Musk | musk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Musk | appos |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 follows | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 follows | punct |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 facts | det |
| 12 | facts | fact | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 follows | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 follows | cop |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 follows | mark |
| 15 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 replied | conj |
| 16 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 19 drinking | punct |
| 17 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 drinking | nsubj |
| 18 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 drinking | aux |
| 19 | drinking | drink | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 15 follows | advcl |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 now | advmod |
| 21 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 drinking | advmod |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 stream | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 stream | det |
| 24 | stream | stream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 drinking | obl |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 forest | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 forest | det |
| 27 | forest | forest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 stream | nmod |
| 28 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 30 noticed | advmod |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 30 noticed | nsubj |
| 30 | noticed | notice | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 drinking | advcl |
| 31 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 32 Tiger | det |
| 32 | Tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 noticed | obj |
| 33 | shut | shut | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 Tiger | acl |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 shut | compound:prt |
| 35 | in | in | ADP | _ | 39 hut | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 Woodcutter | det |
| 37 | Woodcutter | woodcutter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 hut | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 37 Woodcutter | case |
| 39 | hut | hut | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 shut | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Musk | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | the facts | follow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | drink in a quote | past · progressive | the Musk = musk | a stream in the forest | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | notice in a quote | past | the Musk = musk | this Tiger | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S»: agent=Experiencer tiger=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | shut up in a quote | participle | this Tiger not said here | a Woodcutter's hut | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: 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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