Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 21
“There he is,” called out the Hare from the background; “there he is, Uncle Lion, I can see him quite plainly in the water.
Who acts: I · What happens: call out, be, see · To what, where: Uncle Lion, background, Hare, water · 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 (I), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 4 is | expl |
| 3 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 is | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 called | aux:pass |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 is | punct |
| 7 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | out | out | ADP | _ | 7 called | compound:prt |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hare | det |
| 10 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | xcomp |
| 11 | from | from | ADP | _ | 13 background | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 background | det |
| 13 | background | background | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 there | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 there | punct |
| 16 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 called | xcomp |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 is | nsubj |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 there | cop |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 Lion | punct |
| 20 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 Lion | compound |
| 21 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 called | obl |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 see | punct |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 see | nsubj |
| 24 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 see | aux |
| 25 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 called | advcl |
| 26 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 see | obj |
| 27 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 28 plainly | advmod |
| 28 | plainly | plainly | ADV | _ | 25 see | advmod |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 water | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 water | det |
| 31 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 see | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | present · passive | Uncle Lion | the background | the Hare xcomp | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: from background=Source | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | there property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | see in a quote | can | I | Hare | the water | plainly property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer he=Stimulus |
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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