Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 34
“I am Lomden, the Hare,” that animal replied, “and I have been deputed to India on a special mission by the Emperor of China.
Who acts: Lomden · What happens: be, reply, depute · To what, where: Lomden, that, India, special mission · 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 (Lomden), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lomden | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 Lomden | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Lomden | cop |
| 4 | Lomden | Lomden | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hare | punct |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hare | det |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Lomden | appos |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Hare | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Lomden | punct |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 replied | obj |
| 11 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | nsubj |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 deputed | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 deputed | punct |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 deputed | cc |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 deputed | nsubj |
| 17 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 deputed | aux |
| 18 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 19 deputed | aux:pass |
| 19 | deputed | depute | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 replied | conj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 India | case |
| 21 | India | India | PROPN | Number=Sing | 19 deputed | obl |
| 22 | on | on | ADP | _ | 25 mission | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 mission | det |
| 24 | special | special | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 mission | amod |
| 25 | mission | mission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 deputed | obl |
| 26 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 Emperor | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Emperor | det |
| 28 | Emperor | Emperor | PROPN | Number=Sing | 25 mission | nmod |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 30 China | case |
| 30 | China | China | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 Emperor | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | Lomden | Lomden | the Hare appos | tree rules | |||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | Lomden | that | animal nsubj | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent that=Topic | |||
| 3 | depute in a quote | present · perfect · passive | Lomden | India | a special mission by the Emperor of China | tree rules |
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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