Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 12
So when evening came the Cat took her seat on a cushion at one end of the room, and the Mice all went by in single file, each one making a profound salaam as it passed.
Who acts: evening, Cat, Mice, one, salaam · What happens: come, take, go, make, pass · To what, where: seat, cushion, profound salaam
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (evening, Cat, Mice, one), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 came | advmod |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 4 came | advmod |
| 3 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 came | nsubj |
| 4 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Cat | det |
| 6 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | nsubj |
| 7 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 8 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 seat | nmod:poss |
| 9 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 cushion | case |
| 11 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 cushion | det |
| 12 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 end | nummod |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 took | obl |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 room | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 room | det |
| 18 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 end | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 went | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 went | cc |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 Mice | det |
| 22 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 went | nsubj |
| 23 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 went | advmod |
| 24 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 came | conj |
| 25 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 file | case |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 file | case |
| 27 | single | single | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 file | amod |
| 28 | file | file | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 went | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 one | punct |
| 30 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 31 one | det |
| 31 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 file | appos |
| 32 | making | make | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 31 one | acl |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 35 salaam | det |
| 34 | profound | profound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 salaam | amod |
| 35 | salaam | salaam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 making | obj |
| 36 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 38 passed | mark |
| 37 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 passed | nsubj |
| 38 | passed | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 32 making | advcl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | evening | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | take | past | the Cat | Cat's seat | a cushion | at one end of the room | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent seat=Theme on cushion=Destination | ||
| 3 | go | past | the Mice | by single file; all property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme by file=Location | ||||
| 4 | make | gerund | each one not said here | a profound salaam | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset salaam=Product | ||||
| 5 | pass | past | salaam | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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