Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 1

Once upon a time there lived an old Sheep in a low-lying valley of Tibet, and every year she, with her Lamb, [5] were in the habit of leaving the valley during the early months of summer, and going up on to the great northern plateau, where grass is plentiful, and where many Sheep and Goats graze throughout the summer.

Who acts: year, habit, grass, many Sheep · What happens: live, lie, be, leave, go up, graze · To what, where: old Sheep, lying valley, habit, valley

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (year, habit, grass, many Sheep), 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	Once	once	ADV	NumForm=Word NumType=Mult	6 lived	advmod
2	upon	upon	ADP	_	4 time	case
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 time	det
4	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
5	there	there	ADV	PronType=Dem	6 lived	advmod
6	lived	live	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
7	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 Sheep	det
8	old	old	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 Sheep	amod
9	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 lived	obj
10	in	in	ADP	_	15 valley	case
11	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	15 valley	det
12	low	low	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 lying	compound
13	-	-	PUNCT	_	12 low	punct
14	lying	lie	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	15 valley	amod
15	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
16	of	of	ADP	_	17 Tibet	case
17	Tibet	Tibet	PROPN	Number=Sing	15 valley	nmod
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	34 habit	punct
19	and	and	CCONJ	_	34 habit	cc
20	every	every	DET	PronType=Tot	21 year	det
21	year	year	NOUN	Number=Sing	34 habit	nsubj
22	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	34 habit	nsubj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 Lamb	punct
24	with	with	ADP	_	26 Lamb	case
25	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	26 Lamb	nmod:poss
26	Lamb	lamb	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 she	appos
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 5	punct
28	[	[	PUNCT	_	29 5	punct
29	5	5	NUM	NumForm=Digit NumType=Card	26 Lamb	appos
30	]	]	PUNCT	_	29 5	punct
31	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	34 habit	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 habit	case
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 habit	det
34	habit	habit	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 lived	obl
35	of	of	SCONJ	_	36 leaving	mark
36	leaving	leave	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	34 habit	acl
37	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	38 valley	det
38	valley	valley	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 leaving	obj
39	during	during	ADP	_	42 months	case
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 months	det
41	early	early	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 months	amod
42	months	month	NOUN	Number=Plur	36 leaving	obl
43	of	of	ADP	_	44 summer	case
44	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	42 months	nmod
45	,	,	PUNCT	_	47 going	punct
46	and	and	CCONJ	_	47 going	cc
47	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 lived	advcl
48	up	up	ADV	_	47 going	advmod
49	on	on	ADV	_	47 going	advmod
50	to	to	ADP	_	54 plateau	case
51	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	54 plateau	det
52	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 plateau	amod
53	northern	northern	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 plateau	amod
54	plateau	plateau	NOUN	Number=Sing	47 going	obl
55	,	,	PUNCT	_	59 plentiful	punct
56	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	59 plentiful	advmod
57	grass	grass	NOUN	Number=Sing	59 plentiful	nsubj
58	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 plentiful	cop
59	plentiful	plentiful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 plateau	conj
60	,	,	PUNCT	_	67 graze	punct
61	and	and	CCONJ	_	67 graze	cc
62	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	67 graze	advmod
63	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	64 Sheep	amod
64	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	67 graze	nsubj
65	and	and	CCONJ	_	66 Goats	cc
66	Goats	goat	NOUN	Number=Plur	64 Sheep	conj
67	graze	graze	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	59 plentiful	parataxis
68	throughout	throughout	ADP	_	70 summer	case
69	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	70 summer	det
70	summer	summer	NOUN	Number=Sing	67 graze	obl
71	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 lived	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	live	past		a old Sheep	a lying valley of Tibet; there	time	once property	vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme sheep=Location
2	lie	gerund						vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	is	past	every year		the habit		Tibet nsubj	tree rules
4	leave	gerund	the habit not said here	the valley		month		vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent valley=Theme
5	go up	gerund					to the great northern plateau	vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute
6	is	present	grass				plentiful property	tree rules
7	graze	present	many Sheep and Goats			summer		vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 1

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 1