Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 29
So he swam about for some time in the tank, whilst the Hare, sitting on the bank, threw stones at him and made nasty remarks; and finally, when quite wearied out, he sank to the bottom and was drowned.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: swim, sit, throw, make, weary out, sink · To what, where: bank, stones, nasty remarks
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), 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 | _ | 3 swam | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 swam | nsubj |
| 3 | swam | swim | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | about | about | ADV | _ | 3 swam | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 time | case |
| 6 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 7 time | det |
| 7 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | obl |
| 8 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 tank | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 tank | det |
| 10 | tank | tank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 time | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 Hare | punct |
| 12 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 14 Hare | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Hare | det |
| 14 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 swam | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 sitting | punct |
| 16 | sitting | sit | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 swam | conj |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 bank | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 bank | det |
| 19 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 sitting | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 threw | punct |
| 21 | threw | throw | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swam | parataxis |
| 22 | stones | stone | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 threw | obj |
| 23 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 him | case |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 threw | obl |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 made | cc |
| 26 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 21 threw | conj |
| 27 | nasty | nasty | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 remarks | amod |
| 28 | remarks | remark | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 made | obj |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 35 wearied | punct |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 35 wearied | cc |
| 31 | finally | finally | ADV | _ | 35 wearied | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 wearied | punct |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 wearied | advmod |
| 34 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 35 wearied | advmod |
| 35 | wearied | weary | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 swam | conj |
| 36 | out | out | ADP | _ | 35 wearied | compound:prt |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 sank | punct |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 39 sank | nsubj |
| 39 | sank | sink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 swam | parataxis |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 42 bottom | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 bottom | det |
| 42 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 sank | obl |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 drowned | cc |
| 44 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 45 drowned | aux:pass |
| 45 | drowned | drown | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 39 sank | conj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 swam | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | swim | past | Hare | time | whilst the Hare; about property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | sit | gerund | Hare not said here | the bank | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on bank=Location | ||||
| 3 | throw | past | stones | at Hare | vn throw-17.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent stone=Theme at he=Destination | ||||
| 4 | make | past | nasty remarks | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset remark=Product | |||||
| 5 | weary out | participle | Hare not said here | finally property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 6 | sink | past | Hare | to the bottom | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 7 | drown | past · passive | Hare not said here | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP» |
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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