Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 5

Uncle Lion,” said he, “before eating me I just want to tell you about another animal who lives in that pond down there in the valley.

Who acts: Uncle, I, animal · What happens: say, eat, want, tell, live · To what, where: me, you, pond · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Uncle, I, animal), 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	Uncle	uncle	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	nsubj
2	Lion	Lion	PROPN	Number=Sing	1 Uncle	flat
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	1 Uncle	punct
4	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Uncle	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 eating	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	10 eating	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	10 eating	punct
9	before	before	SCONJ	_	10 eating	mark
10	eating	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	5 said	ccomp
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 eating	obj
12	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 want	nsubj
13	just	just	ADV	_	14 want	advmod
14	want	want	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	10 eating	parataxis
15	to	to	PART	_	16 tell	mark
16	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 want	xcomp
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 tell	iobj
18	about	about	ADP	_	20 animal	case
19	another	another	DET	PronType=Ind	20 animal	det
20	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 tell	obl
21	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 lives	nsubj
22	lives	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 animal	acl:relcl
23	in	in	ADP	_	25 pond	case
24	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	25 pond	det
25	pond	pond	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lives	obl
26	down	down	ADV	_	22 lives	advmod
27	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	22 lives	advmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 valley	case
29	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	30 valley	det
30	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 lives	obl
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert in a quote	past	Uncle					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	eat	gerund	Uncle	me				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
3	want	present	I					vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme
4	tell speech: assert not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here		you		about another animal	vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Agent you=Recipient about animal=Topic
5	live	present	another animal			that pond; there	in the valley; down property	vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in pond=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 5

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 5