Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah., sentence 16
The dog seeing that it could not fight with success against a band of armed robbers, waited until they had left and then followed them until it saw them conceal their plunder.
Who acts: dog, robbers · What happens: see, not fight, wait, leave, follow, conceal · To what, where: robbers, plunder · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Kutteji Kabar and Mausum Shah.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (dog, robbers), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 dog | det |
| 2 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 waited | nsubj |
| 3 | seeing | see | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 2 dog | acl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 fight | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fight | nsubj |
| 6 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 fight | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 fight | advmod |
| 8 | fight | fight | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seeing | ccomp |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 success | case |
| 10 | success | success | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fight | obl |
| 11 | against | against | ADP | _ | 13 band | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 band | det |
| 13 | band | band | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 fight | obl |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 robbers | case |
| 15 | armed | armed | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 robbers | amod |
| 16 | robbers | robber | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 band | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 dog | punct |
| 18 | waited | wait | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 19 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 left | mark |
| 20 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 left | nsubj |
| 21 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 left | aux |
| 22 | left | leave | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 18 waited | advcl |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 followed | cc |
| 24 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 followed | advmod |
| 25 | followed | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 waited | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 followed | obj |
| 27 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 29 saw | mark |
| 28 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | nsubj |
| 29 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 followed | advcl |
| 30 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 saw | obj |
| 31 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 saw | xcomp |
| 32 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 plunder | nmod:poss |
| 33 | plunder | plunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 conceal | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 18 waited | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | see | gerund | the dog not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 2 | not fight | could | dog | with success; against a band of armed robbers | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with success=Co-Agent | ||||
| 3 | wait | past | the dog | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | leave | past · perfect | robbers = robber | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | follow | past | the dog not said here | robbers = robber | then | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Theme | |||
| 6 | see | past | dog | robbers = robber | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | conceal | infinitive | robbers = robber not said here | robbers's plunder | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plunder=Patient | ||||
| 8 | plunder | robbers = robber | nom plunder «possession 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 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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