Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 22
We are now very near the appointed place, and I very much fear that in another day or two we shall both be killed by the Wolf.”
Who acts: We, I, Wolf · What happens: appoint, be, fear, kill · To what, where: appointed place, we
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 (We, I, Wolf), 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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 place | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 place | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 place | advmod |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 8 place | advmod |
| 5 | near | near | ADP | _ | 8 place | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 place | det |
| 7 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 place | amod |
| 8 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 fear | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 fear | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 fear | nsubj |
| 12 | very | very | ADV | _ | 13 much | advmod |
| 13 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fear | amod |
| 14 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 place | parataxis |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 25 killed | mark |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 day | case |
| 17 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 day | det |
| 18 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 killed | obl |
| 19 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 20 two | cc |
| 20 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 day | conj |
| 21 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 killed | aux |
| 23 | both | both | ADV | _ | 25 killed | advmod |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 killed | aux:pass |
| 25 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 fear | acl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Wolf | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Wolf | det |
| 28 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 killed | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 fear | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 place | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | appoint | participle | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 2 | is | present | We | the appointed place | now | tree rules | |||
| 3 | fear | I | tree rules | ||||||
| 4 | kill | shall · passive | the Wolf | we | day | both property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=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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