Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 17
So the Hare, after again begging him to be careful of himself, preceded him down the hill until they arrived at the edge of a square-built stone tank, which was nearly full of water.
Who acts: Hare, animals, built stone tank · What happens: beg, be, proceed down, arrive, build · To what, where: Hare, Lion, edge · 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 (Hare, animals, built stone tank), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 15 preceded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hare | det |
| 3 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 preceded | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 begging | punct |
| 5 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 7 begging | mark |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 7 begging | advmod |
| 7 | begging | beg | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 3 Hare | acl |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 begging | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 careful | mark |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 11 careful | cop |
| 11 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 begging | ccomp |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 himself | case |
| 13 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 11 careful | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 preceded | punct |
| 15 | preceded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 preceded | obj |
| 17 | down | down | ADP | _ | 15 preceded | compound:prt |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 hill | det |
| 19 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 preceded | obj |
| 20 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 22 arrived | mark |
| 21 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 arrived | nsubj |
| 22 | arrived | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 preceded | advcl |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 edge | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 edge | det |
| 25 | edge | edge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 arrived | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 32 tank | case |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 tank | det |
| 28 | square | square | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 built | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 square | punct |
| 30 | built | build | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 tank | amod |
| 31 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 tank | compound |
| 32 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 edge | nmod |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 full | punct |
| 34 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 full | nsubj |
| 35 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 37 full | cop |
| 36 | nearly | nearly | ADV | _ | 37 full | advmod |
| 37 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 tank | conj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 water | case |
| 39 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 37 full | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 preceded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | gerund | the Hare not said here | Hare | again | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is not said to happen | to-infinitive | of Hare; careful property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | proceed down | past | the Hare | Lion | the hill obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | arrive | past | animals = animal | the edge of a built stone tank | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | build | participle | square compound | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 6 | is | past | a built stone tank | of water; full, nearly 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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