Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 12
So saying, he galloped off, and the Sheep and the Lamb continued on their way towards the north, and soon forgot all about their encounter with the Wolf.
Who acts: Wolf, Sheep · What happens: say, gallop off, continue, forget, encounter · To what, where: way · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Wolf, 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 2 saying | advmod |
| 2 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 galloped | advcl |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 saying | punct |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 galloped | nsubj |
| 5 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | off | off | ADP | _ | 5 galloped | compound:prt |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 continued | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 continued | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Sheep | det |
| 10 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 continued | nsubj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 Lamb | cc |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lamb | det |
| 13 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sheep | conj |
| 14 | continued | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 galloped | parataxis |
| 15 | on | on | ADP | _ | 17 way | case |
| 16 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 way | nmod:poss |
| 17 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 continued | obl |
| 18 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 20 north | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 north | det |
| 20 | north | north | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 continued | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 forgot | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 forgot | cc |
| 23 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 24 forgot | advmod |
| 24 | forgot | forget | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 5 galloped | conj |
| 25 | all | all | ADV | _ | 24 forgot | advmod |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 encounter | case |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 encounter | nmod:poss |
| 28 | encounter | encounter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 forgot | obl |
| 29 | with | with | ADP | _ | 31 Wolf | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Wolf | det |
| 31 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 encounter | nmod |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 galloped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | gerund | Wolf not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | gallop off | past | Wolf | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | continue | past | the Sheep and the Lamb | Sheep's way | towards the north | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme towards north=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | forget | past | Wolf not said here | about Sheep's encounter with the Wolf; all, soon property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | encounter | Sheep | with the Wolf | nom encounter «act transitive»: poss=agent with=obl |
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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