Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 32
The Hare, having studied his ground, went off next morning to find the Lioness.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: have, study, go off, find · To what, where: ground, Lioness
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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Hare | det |
| 2 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 studied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Hare | punct |
| 4 | having | have | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 studied | reparandum |
| 5 | studied | study | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 ground | nmod:poss |
| 7 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 studied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 went | punct |
| 9 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 studied | conj |
| 10 | off | off | ADV | _ | 9 went | advmod |
| 11 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 morning | amod |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 went | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 find | mark |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 went | advcl |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 Lioness | det |
| 16 | Lioness | lioness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obj |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 studied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | gerund | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | study | past | the Hare | Hare's ground | vn learn-14-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ground=Topic | ||||
| 3 | go off | past | the Hare not said here | morning | off property | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | |||
| 4 | find | to-infinitive | the Hare not said here | the Lioness | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lioness=Topic |
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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