Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 18
They agreed that Rambé was always to walk at the very front of the procession of the Mice, and that Ambé was to bring up the rear, and that all the time the procession was passing, Rambé was to call to Ambé, and Ambé to answer Rambé at frequent intervals.
Who acts: names, Rambé, Ambé, procession, Mice · What happens: agree, be, pass, answer, proceed · To what, where: front, time, Ambé, Rambé, frequent intervals · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (names, Rambé, Ambé, procession), 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 agreed | nsubj |
| 2 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 walk | mark |
| 4 | Rambé | Rambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 walk | cop |
| 6 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 8 walk | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 walk | mark |
| 8 | walk | walk | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | ccomp |
| 9 | at | at | ADP | _ | 12 front | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 front | det |
| 11 | very | very | ADV | _ | 12 front | advmod |
| 12 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 walk | obl |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 procession | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 procession | det |
| 15 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 front | nmod |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 Mice | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 Mice | det |
| 18 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 procession | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bring | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bring | cc |
| 21 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 bring | mark |
| 22 | Ambé | Ambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | nsubj |
| 23 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 bring | cop |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 bring | mark |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 walk | conj |
| 26 | up | up | ADP | _ | 25 bring | compound:prt |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 rear | det |
| 28 | rear | rear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bring | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 43 call | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 43 call | cc |
| 31 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 time | mark |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 time | det:predet |
| 33 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 34 time | det |
| 34 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 43 call | advcl |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 procession | det |
| 36 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 passing | nsubj |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 passing | aux |
| 38 | passing | pass | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 time | acl:relcl |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 time | punct |
| 40 | Rambé | Rambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 call | nsubj |
| 41 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 call | cop |
| 42 | to | to | PART | _ | 43 call | mark |
| 43 | call | call | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | conj |
| 44 | to | to | ADP | _ | 45 Ambé | case |
| 45 | Ambé | Ambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 43 call | obl |
| 46 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 50 answer | punct |
| 47 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 50 answer | cc |
| 48 | Ambé | Ambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 answer | nsubj |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 answer | mark |
| 50 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 agreed | conj |
| 51 | Rambé | Rambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 50 answer | obj |
| 52 | at | at | ADP | _ | 54 intervals | case |
| 53 | frequent | frequent | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 54 intervals | amod |
| 54 | intervals | interval | NOUN | Number=Plur | 50 answer | obl |
| 55 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | names = name | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | past | Rambé | the front of the procession of the Mice | always, walk property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | is | past | Ambé | the rear obj; bring property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | pass | past · progressive | the procession | all time not said here | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme time=Trajectory | ||||
| 5 | is | past | Rambé | Ambé | call property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | answer speech: assert | to-infinitive | Ambé | Rambé | frequent intervals | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent rambé=Eventuality | |||
| 7 | proceed | the Mice | nom procession «event intransitive»: of=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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