Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 40
[This story is a satire on the assumption and arrogance of Tibetan and Chinese officials, and the timidity and submissiveness of the Tibetan peasants.
Who acts: story · What happens: be · To what, where: satire, assumption
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 (story), 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 | _ | 6 satire | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 satire | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 satire | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 satire | det |
| 6 | satire | satire | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 assumption | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 assumption | det |
| 9 | assumption | assumption | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 satire | nmod |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 arrogance | cc |
| 11 | arrogance | arrogance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 assumption | conj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 Tibetan | case |
| 13 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 arrogance | nmod |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 officials | cc |
| 15 | Chinese | Chinese | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 officials | amod |
| 16 | officials | official | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 Tibetan | conj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 timidity | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 timidity | cc |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 timidity | det |
| 20 | timidity | timidity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 satire | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 submissiveness | cc |
| 22 | submissiveness | submissiveness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 timidity | conj |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 peasants | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 peasants | det |
| 25 | Tibetan | tibetan | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 peasants | amod |
| 26 | peasants | peasant | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 timidity | nmod |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 satire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this story | a satire and the timidity of the Tibetan peasants and submissiveness | the assumption and arrogance of Tibetan and Chinese officials | the timidity of the Tibetan peasants and submissiveness conj | 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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