Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 16
This remark of the Hare’s made the Lion more angry than before, and he insisted that the Hare should at once lead him down and show him where the other animal lived.
Who acts: remark, Hare, other animal · What happens: make, insist, lead down, show, live, remark · To what, where: Lion, remark, Hare · 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 (remark, Hare, other animal), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 remark | det |
| 2 | remark | remark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | nsubj |
| 3 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 Hare | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Hare | det |
| 5 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 remark | nmod |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 Hare | case |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 9 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 10 | more | more | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 11 angry | advmod |
| 11 | angry | angry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 made | xcomp |
| 12 | than | than | ADP | _ | 13 before | case |
| 13 | before | before | ADV | _ | 11 angry | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 insisted | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 insisted | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 insisted | nsubj |
| 17 | insisted | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 made | conj |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 lead | mark |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Hare | det |
| 20 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 lead | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 lead | aux |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 once | case |
| 23 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 24 lead | obl |
| 24 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 insisted | ccomp |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 lead | obj |
| 26 | down | down | ADP | _ | 24 lead | compound:prt |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 show | cc |
| 28 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 lead | conj |
| 29 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 show | iobj |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 34 lived | advmod |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 animal | det |
| 32 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 animal | amod |
| 33 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 lived | nsubj |
| 34 | lived | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 show | advcl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | this remark of the Hare | the Lion | angry property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset lion=Product | |||
| 2 | insist speech: other | past | remark | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | lead down | should | the Hare | remark | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme at once=Destination | ||||
| 4 | show | infinitive | the Hare not said here | remark | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | live | past | the other animal | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | remark | the Hare | nom remark «communication transitive»: of=patient |
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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