Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 35
How is it I find you pacing here in front of your den instead of hunting your prey as usual on the hillside?”
Who acts: matter, I, you · What happens: be, find, pace, hunt · To what, where: you, front, prey, hillside
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 (matter, I, you), 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 | How | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 find | advmod |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 How | cop |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 How | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 find | nsubj |
| 5 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 find | obj |
| 7 | pacing | pace | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 5 find | xcomp |
| 8 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 7 pacing | advmod |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 front | case |
| 10 | front | front | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 pacing | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 den | case |
| 12 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 den | nmod:poss |
| 13 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 front | nmod |
| 14 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=SCONJ | 16 hunting | mark |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 instead | fixed |
| 16 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 pacing | advcl |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 prey | nmod:poss |
| 18 | prey | prey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hunting | obj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 20 usual | case |
| 20 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 hunting | obl |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 hillside | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 hillside | det |
| 23 | hillside | hillside | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 hunting | obl |
| 24 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 find | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | matter | how property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | find | present | I | you | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent you=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | pace | gerund | you not said here | front of your den; here | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in front=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | hunt | gerund | you not said here | your prey | the hillside | as usual | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent prey=Theme on hillside=Location |
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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