The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 9, sentence 49
You may be sure the old Hare lost no time in spreading the news of their enemy’s end to his friends of the jungle.
Who acts: You, old Hare · What happens: be, lose, spread · To what, where: news
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 9. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (You, old Hare), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 sure | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | aux |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 sure | cop |
| 4 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hare | det |
| 6 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 Hare | amod |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | nsubj |
| 8 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 sure | ccomp |
| 9 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 10 time | det |
| 10 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lost | obj |
| 11 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 12 spreading | mark |
| 12 | spreading | spread | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 8 lost | advcl |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 news | det |
| 14 | news | news | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 spreading | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 end | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 enemy | nmod:poss |
| 17 | enemy | enemy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 end | nmod:poss |
| 18 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 17 enemy | case |
| 19 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 news | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 friends | case |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 friends | nmod:poss |
| 22 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 spreading | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 jungle | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 jungle | det |
| 25 | jungle | jungle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 friends | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | You | sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | lose | past | the old Hare | time | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | spread | gerund | the old Hare not said here | the news of LION's enemy's end | to HARE's friends of the jungle | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location news=Theme |
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: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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