Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 13
Uncle Lion,” said the Hare, “let me beg you to be careful.
Who acts: Uncle, me · What happens: say, let, beg, be · To what, where: me, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Uncle, me), 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 | Uncle | uncle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 2 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 1 Uncle | flat |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Uncle | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Uncle | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hare | det |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | beg | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 beg | obj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 careful | mark |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 careful | cop |
| 16 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 beg | advcl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Uncle | the Hare nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | me | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | beg speech: request | infinitive | me not said here | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | me not said here | careful 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 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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