Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 27
These last observations of the Hare goaded the Lion to desperation, and with a fierce roar he sprang straight at the image in the water.
Who acts: last observations, Hare · What happens: goad, spring, observe · To what, where: Lion, image, Hare
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 (last observations, Hare), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 observations | det |
| 2 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 observations | amod |
| 3 | observations | observation | NOUN | Number=Plur | 7 goaded | nsubj |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 Hare | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 Hare | det |
| 6 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 observations | nmod |
| 7 | goaded | goad | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Lion | det |
| 9 | Lion | lion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goaded | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 desperation | case |
| 11 | desperation | desperation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 goaded | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sprang | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sprang | cc |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 roar | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 roar | det |
| 16 | fierce | fierce | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 roar | amod |
| 17 | roar | roar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprang | obl |
| 18 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 sprang | nsubj |
| 19 | sprang | spring | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 goaded | conj |
| 20 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 19 sprang | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 23 image | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 image | det |
| 23 | image | image | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 sprang | obl |
| 24 | in | in | ADP | _ | 26 water | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 water | det |
| 26 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 image | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 goaded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | goad | past | this last observations of the Hare | the Lion | to desperation | vn bully-59.5 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lion=Patient | |||
| 2 | spring | past | Hare | the image in the water | with a fierce roar; straight property | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme at image=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | observe | the Hare | nom observation «act 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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