Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 38
The fact is, he and I had a little argument yesterday, in which we both lost our tempers.
Who acts: fact, we, our · What happens: be, lose, temper · To what, where: tempers
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 (fact, we, our), 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 fact | det |
| 2 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | cop |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 5 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 had | nsubj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 I | cc |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 he | conj |
| 8 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 argument | det |
| 10 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 argument | amod |
| 11 | argument | argument | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obj |
| 12 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 had | obl:unmarked |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 lost | punct |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 18 lost | obl |
| 16 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 lost | nsubj |
| 17 | both | both | ADV | _ | 18 lost | advmod |
| 18 | lost | lose | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 had | conj |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 tempers | nmod:poss |
| 20 | tempers | temper | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 lost | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the fact | yesterday | Hare nsubj; a little argument obj; have property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lose | past | we | our tempers | which obl; both property | vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent temper=Eventuality | |||
| 3 | temper | our | nom temper «feeling transitive»: poss=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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