Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 24
“That’s right, Uncle Lion,” called out the Hare; “I am so glad you are taking good care of yourself.
Who acts: That, Hare, you, yourself · What happens: be, call out, take, care · To what, where: good care · 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 (That, Hare, you, yourself), 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 | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 2 | That | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 right | nsubj |
| 3 | ’s | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 right | cop |
| 4 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lion | punct |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Lion | compound |
| 7 | Lion | Lion | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 right | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Lion | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
| 10 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 right | conj |
| 11 | out | out | ADP | _ | 10 called | compound:prt |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Hare | det |
| 13 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 called | xcomp |
| 14 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 glad | punct |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 glad | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 glad | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 glad | cop |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 glad | advmod |
| 19 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 right | parataxis |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 taking | nsubj |
| 21 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 taking | aux |
| 22 | taking | take | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 glad | parataxis |
| 23 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 care | amod |
| 24 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 taking | obj |
| 25 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 yourself | case |
| 26 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 care | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 right | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | That | Uncle Lion appos; right property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | That not said here | the Hare xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | Hare | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | take in a quote | present · progressive | you | good care of yourself | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent care=Theme | ||||
| 5 | care in a quote | yourself | nom care «act intransitive»: of=agent |
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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