Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 41
The Hare made straight for the ruined wall, and entering the breach in the wall at the large end he emerged safely at the other side by the smaller recess, which was just large enough for him to pass through.
Who acts: Hare, smaller recess · What happens: make, ruin, enter, emerge, be, pass through · To what, where: breach, wall, large end, other side
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, smaller recess), 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 | 3 made | nsubj |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | straight | straight | ADV | _ | 3 made | advmod |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 wall | det |
| 7 | ruined | ruin | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 wall | amod |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 entering | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 entering | cc |
| 11 | entering | enter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 made | advcl |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 breach | det |
| 13 | breach | breach | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entering | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 16 wall | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 wall | det |
| 16 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entering | obl |
| 17 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 end | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 end | det |
| 19 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 end | amod |
| 20 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entering | obl |
| 21 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 emerged | nsubj |
| 22 | emerged | emerge | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 end | acl:relcl |
| 23 | safely | safely | ADV | _ | 22 emerged | advmod |
| 24 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 side | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 side | det |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 side | amod |
| 27 | side | side | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 emerged | obl |
| 28 | by | by | ADP | _ | 31 recess | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 recess | det |
| 30 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 31 recess | amod |
| 31 | recess | recess | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 entering | obl |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 large | punct |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 large | nsubj |
| 34 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 36 large | cop |
| 35 | just | just | ADV | _ | 36 large | advmod |
| 36 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 31 recess | amod |
| 37 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 36 large | advmod |
| 38 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 41 pass | mark |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 41 pass | nsubj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 pass | mark |
| 41 | pass | pass | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 36 large | advcl |
| 42 | through | through | ADV | _ | 41 pass | advmod |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | past | the Hare | for the ruined wall; straight property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP P.asset»: agent=Agent for wall=Asset | ||||
| 2 | ruin | participle | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 3 | enter | gerund | the Hare not said here | the breach | the wall | at the large end | by the smaller recess | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme breach=Destination | |
| 4 | emerge | past | Hare | the large end not said here | the other side | safely property | vn appear-48.1.1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location end=Theme | ||
| 5 | is | past | the smaller recess | enough, large property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | pass through | to-infinitive | Hare | through property | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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