Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 1
[This story is really the continuation of Number X., which is sometimes told of “the Sheep and the Goat,” instead of “the Sheep and the Lamb.”
Who acts: story · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: continuation · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf.. 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 | _ | 7 continuation | punct |
| 2 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 story | det |
| 3 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continuation | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 continuation | cop |
| 5 | really | really | ADV | _ | 7 continuation | advmod |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 continuation | det |
| 7 | continuation | continuation | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 X | case |
| 9 | Number | number | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 X | compound |
| 10 | X | x | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 continuation | nmod |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 continuation | punct |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 told | punct |
| 13 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 told | nsubj:pass |
| 14 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 told | aux:pass |
| 15 | sometimes | sometimes | ADV | PronType=Ind | 16 told | advmod |
| 16 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 continuation | parataxis |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Sheep | case |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sheep | punct |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Sheep | det |
| 20 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | obl |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 Goat | cc |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 Goat | det |
| 23 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Sheep | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sheep | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 Sheep | punct |
| 26 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 30 Sheep | case |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 instead | fixed |
| 28 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 30 Sheep | punct |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Sheep | det |
| 30 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 told | obl |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 Lamb | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Lamb | det |
| 33 | Lamb | Lamb | PROPN | Number=Sing | 30 Sheep | conj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 continuation | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 continuation | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | this story | the continuation | of Number X | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · passive | the continuation | of the Sheep and the Goat; instead the Sheep and the Lamb; sometimes property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient |
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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