Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 35

After this the Mice were very careful not to put any further trust in the treacherous Cat, who soon after died of starvation owing to her being unable to procure any of her customary food; whilst Rambé and Ambé lived for many years, and were held in high honour and esteem by all the other Mice in the community.

Who acts: Mice, treacherous Cat, starvation, Rambé, other Mice · What happens: be, not put, die, owe, procure, live · To what, where: further trust, any, high honour

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 (Mice, treacherous Cat, starvation, Rambé), 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	After	after	ADP	_	2 this	case
2	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	4 Mice	obl
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Mice	det
4	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	7 careful	nsubj
5	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	7 careful	cop
6	very	very	ADV	_	7 careful	advmod
7	careful	careful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
8	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	10 put	advmod
9	to	to	PART	_	10 put	mark
10	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 careful	advcl
11	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 trust	det
12	further	further	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 trust	amod
13	trust	trust	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obj
14	in	in	ADP	_	17 Cat	case
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 Cat	det
16	treacherous	treacherous	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 Cat	amod
17	Cat	cat	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 put	obl
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 died	punct
19	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 died	nsubj
20	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	22 died	advmod
21	after	after	SCONJ	_	22 died	mark
22	died	die	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	17 Cat	acl:relcl
23	of	of	ADP	_	24 starvation	case
24	starvation	starvation	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 died	obl
25	owing	owe	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	24 starvation	acl
26	to	to	ADP	_	29 unable	case
27	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	29 unable	nmod:poss
28	being	be	AUX	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	29 unable	cop
29	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	25 owing	ccomp
30	to	to	PART	_	31 procure	mark
31	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 unable	xcomp
32	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	31 procure	obj
33	of	of	ADP	_	36 food	case
34	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	36 food	nmod:poss
35	customary	customary	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 food	compound
36	food	food	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 any	nmod
37	;	;	PUNCT	_	42 lived	punct
38	whilst	whilst	SCONJ	_	42 lived	mark
39	Rambé	Rambé	PROPN	Number=Sing	42 lived	nsubj
40	and	and	CCONJ	_	41 Ambé	cc
41	Ambé	Ambé	PROPN	Number=Sing	39 Rambé	conj
42	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	10 put	parataxis
43	for	for	ADP	_	45 years	case
44	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	45 years	amod
45	years	year	NOUN	Number=Plur	42 lived	obl
46	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 held	punct
47	and	and	CCONJ	_	49 held	cc
48	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	49 held	aux:pass
49	held	hold	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	7 careful	conj
50	in	in	ADP	_	52 honour	case
51	high	high	ADJ	Degree=Pos	52 honour	amod
52	honour	honour	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 held	obl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 esteem	cc
54	esteem	esteem	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 honour	conj
55	by	by	ADP	_	59 Mice	case
56	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	59 Mice	det:predet
57	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	59 Mice	det
58	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	59 Mice	amod
59	Mice	mouse	NOUN	Number=Plur	49 held	obl
60	in	in	ADP	_	62 community	case
61	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	62 community	det
62	community	community	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 Mice	nmod
63	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 careful	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is	past	the Mice after this				careful property	tree rules
2	not put	to-infinitive	the Mice after this not said here	any further trust			in the treacherous Cat	vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent trust=Theme in cat=Destination
3	die	past	the treacherous Cat				of starvation; soon property	vn die-42.4-1 «NP V PP.cause»: agent=Patient of starvation=Causer
4	owe	gerund	starvation not said here					vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
5	is	gerund	starvation not said here				Cat nmod:poss; unable property	tree rules
6	procure	to-infinitive	starvation not said here	any of Cat's customary food				vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent any=Theme
7	live	past	Rambé and Ambé			year		vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
8	hold	past · passive	all other Mice in the community		high honour and esteem			vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in honour=Location

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 the Cat and the Mice., sentence 35

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 35