Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 31
There were toy dogs that ran for miles, toy lions and tigers that roared horribly, toy partridges that rose with a whirr just like live ones, toy pheasants that flew up slantwise into the air and toymen who walked about and talked just as if they had been real.
Who acts: toy dogs, tigers, toy partridges, toy pheasants, toymen, dogs · What happens: be, run, roar, rose, fly up, walk · To what, where: air
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (toy dogs, tigers, toy partridges, toy pheasants), 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 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 2 were | expl |
| 2 | were | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 dogs | compound |
| 4 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 were | nsubj |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 ran | nsubj |
| 6 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 miles | case |
| 8 | miles | mile | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 ran | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 lions | punct |
| 10 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 lions | compound |
| 11 | lions | lion | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dogs | conj |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 tigers | cc |
| 13 | tigers | tiger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dogs | conj |
| 14 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 roared | nsubj |
| 15 | roared | roar | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 tigers | acl:relcl |
| 16 | horribly | horribly | ADV | _ | 15 roared | advmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 partridges | punct |
| 18 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 partridges | compound |
| 19 | partridges | partridge | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dogs | conj |
| 20 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 rose | nsubj |
| 21 | rose | rose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 partridges | acl:relcl |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 whirr | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 whirr | det |
| 24 | whirr | whirr | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 rose | obl |
| 25 | just | just | ADV | _ | 28 ones | advmod |
| 26 | like | like | ADP | _ | 28 ones | case |
| 27 | live | live | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 ones | amod |
| 28 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 rose | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 pheasants | punct |
| 30 | toy | toy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 pheasants | compound |
| 31 | pheasants | pheasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 dogs | conj |
| 32 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 flew | nsubj |
| 33 | flew | fly | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 pheasants | acl:relcl |
| 34 | up | up | ADP | _ | 33 flew | compound:prt |
| 35 | slantwise | slantwise | ADV | _ | 33 flew | advmod |
| 36 | into | into | ADP | _ | 38 air | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 air | det |
| 38 | air | air | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 flew | obl |
| 39 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 40 toymen | cc |
| 40 | toymen | toymen | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 air | conj |
| 41 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 42 walked | nsubj |
| 42 | walked | walk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 toymen | acl:relcl |
| 43 | about | about | ADV | _ | 42 walked | advmod |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 talked | cc |
| 45 | talked | talk | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 walked | conj |
| 46 | just | just | ADV | _ | 52 real | advmod |
| 47 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 52 real | mark |
| 48 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 52 real | mark |
| 49 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 52 real | nsubj |
| 50 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 52 real | aux |
| 51 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 52 real | cop |
| 52 | real | real | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 talked | ccomp |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 were | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be | past | toy dogs and toy lions and tigers and toy partridges and toy pheasants | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | run | past | toy dogs and toy lions and tigers and toy partridges and toy pheasants | for miles | vn preparing-26.3-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent for mile=Beneficiary | ||||
| 3 | roar | past | tigers | horribly property | vn sound_emission-43.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rose | present | toy partridges | with a whirr; like live ones | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | fly up | past | toy pheasants | into the air and toymen result; slantwise property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.result»: agent=Theme into air=Result | ||||
| 6 | walk | past | toymen | about property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 7 | talk | past | toymen not said here | vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 8 | is a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | dogs = dog | real property | tree rules |
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 of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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