Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 21
The Wolf agreed to this, and said that we must meet him at the same spot in the autumn.
Who acts: Wolf, we · What happens: agree, say, meet · To what, where: Wolf, same spot · 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, we), 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 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 this | case |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 agreed | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 said | cc |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | parataxis |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 meet | mark |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 meet | nsubj |
| 11 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 meet | aux |
| 12 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 meet | obj |
| 14 | at | at | ADP | _ | 17 spot | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 spot | det |
| 16 | same | same | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 spot | amod |
| 17 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 autumn | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 autumn | det |
| 20 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 meet | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | the Wolf | to this | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | meet | must | we | Wolf | the same spot | autumn | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-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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