Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 27
He then prepared two small bundles, which he slung across the Lamb, and tied them on with a rope.
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: prepare, sling, tie on · To what, where: two small bundles, bundles
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), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 prepared | nsubj |
| 2 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 prepared | advmod |
| 3 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 bundles | nummod |
| 5 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 bundles | amod |
| 6 | bundles | bundle | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 prepared | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 slung | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 slung | obj |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 slung | nsubj |
| 10 | slung | sling | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 bundles | acl:relcl |
| 11 | across | across | ADP | _ | 13 Lamb | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 Lamb | det |
| 13 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 slung | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 tied | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 tied | cc |
| 16 | tied | tie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 prepared | conj |
| 17 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 tied | obj |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 tied | compound:prt |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 rope | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 rope | det |
| 21 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 tied | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare | past | Wolf | two small bundles | then | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bundle=Patient | |||
| 2 | sling | past | Wolf | two small bundles | across the Lamb | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | |||
| 3 | tie on | past | Wolf not said here | bundles = bundle | with a rope | vn mix-22.1-2 «NP V NP PP.co-patient»: agent=Agent they=Patient with rope=Co-Patient |
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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