Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 20
As soon as Rambé had passed the cushion where the Cat was seated and had made his salaam, he called out in a shrill voice.
Who acts: Rambé, procession · What happens: pass, seat, make, call out, salaam · To what, where: cushion, Cat, salaam, shrill voice
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 (Rambé, 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 21 called | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 6 passed | mark |
| 4 | Rambé | Rambé | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | nsubj |
| 5 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 passed | aux |
| 6 | passed | pass | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 21 called | advcl |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 cushion | det |
| 8 | cushion | cushion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 passed | obj |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 seated | advmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Cat | det |
| 11 | Cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 seated | nsubj |
| 12 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 seated | aux:pass |
| 13 | seated | seat | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 cushion | acl:relcl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 made | cc |
| 15 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 made | aux |
| 16 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 6 passed | conj |
| 17 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 salaam | nmod:poss |
| 18 | salaam | salaam | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 made | obj |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 passed | punct |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 called | nsubj |
| 21 | called | call | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 22 | out | out | ADP | _ | 21 called | compound:prt |
| 23 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 voice | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 voice | det |
| 25 | shrill | shrill | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 voice | amod |
| 26 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 called | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pass | past · perfect | Rambé | the cushion | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme cushion=Trajectory | ||||
| 2 | seat | past · passive | the Cat | vn fit-54.3 «NP.location V NP»: subject=Value | |||||
| 3 | make | past · perfect | Rambé not said here | procession's salaam | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset salaam=Product | ||||
| 4 | call out speech: assert | past | procession | a shrill voice | soon property | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 5 | salaam | procession | nom salaam «communication transitive»: poss=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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