Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 1
Once upon a time there lived a Lion and a Lioness who inhabited a den amongst some rocks on the slopes of a mountain.
Who acts: Lion, Lioness · What happens: live, lioness, inhabit · To what, where: den
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Lion, Lioness), 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 | Once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 6 lived | advmod |
| 2 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 4 time | case |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 time | det |
| 4 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obl |
| 5 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 lived | advmod |
| 6 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Lioness | det |
| 8 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 Lioness | nsubj |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Lioness | cc |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 Lioness | det |
| 11 | Lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 lived | obj |
| 12 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 inhabited | nsubj |
| 13 | inhabited | inhabit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Lioness | acl:relcl |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 den | det |
| 15 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 inhabited | obj |
| 16 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 18 rocks | case |
| 17 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 rocks | det |
| 18 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 inhabited | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 slopes | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 slopes | det |
| 21 | slopes | slope | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 rocks | nmod |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 mountain | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 mountain | det |
| 24 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 slopes | nmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 lived | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | live | past | there | time | once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | lioness | Lion | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | inhabit | past | a Lioness | a den | amongst some rocks on the slopes of a mountain | 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 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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