Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 35
They soon came to some rough, rocky ground, and here the Goat missed his footing and fell into a deep, narrow cleft between two rocks, breaking his leg; and the Wolf, who had not seen what had happened, jumped over the crevice and pursued his way, still hunting for the Goat.
Who acts: hills, Goat, Wolf · What happens: come, miss, fall, break, not see, happen · To what, where: rough rocky ground, footing, deep narrow cleft, leg, crevice, way
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 (hills, Goat, 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 | They | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 came | nsubj |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 3 came | advmod |
| 3 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 ground | case |
| 5 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 9 ground | nsubj |
| 6 | rough | rough | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ground | amod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 rough | punct |
| 8 | rocky | rocky | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 ground | amod |
| 9 | ground | ground | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 came | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 missed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 missed | cc |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 15 missed | advmod |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Goat | det |
| 14 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 15 missed | nsubj |
| 15 | missed | miss | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 footing | nmod:poss |
| 17 | footing | footing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 missed | obj |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 fell | cc |
| 19 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 15 missed | conj |
| 20 | into | into | ADP | _ | 25 cleft | case |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 cleft | det |
| 22 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cleft | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 deep | punct |
| 24 | narrow | narrow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 cleft | amod |
| 25 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 fell | obl |
| 26 | between | between | ADP | _ | 28 rocks | case |
| 27 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 28 rocks | nummod |
| 28 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 cleft | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 breaking | punct |
| 30 | breaking | break | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 fell | advcl |
| 31 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 leg | nmod:poss |
| 32 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 breaking | obj |
| 33 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 46 jumped | punct |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 46 jumped | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Wolf | det |
| 36 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 46 jumped | nsubj |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 seen | punct |
| 38 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 41 seen | nsubj |
| 39 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 41 seen | aux |
| 40 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 41 seen | advmod |
| 41 | seen | see | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 36 Wolf | acl:relcl |
| 42 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 44 happened | nsubj |
| 43 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 44 happened | aux |
| 44 | happened | happen | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 41 seen | conj |
| 45 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 Wolf | punct |
| 46 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 came | parataxis |
| 47 | over | over | ADP | _ | 49 crevice | case |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 crevice | det |
| 49 | crevice | crevice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 jumped | obl |
| 50 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 51 pursued | cc |
| 51 | pursued | pursue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 46 jumped | conj |
| 52 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 53 way | nmod:poss |
| 53 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 51 pursued | obj |
| 54 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 56 hunting | punct |
| 55 | still | still | ADV | _ | 56 hunting | advmod |
| 56 | hunting | hunt | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 51 pursued | advcl |
| 57 | for | for | ADP | _ | 59 Goat | case |
| 58 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 59 Goat | det |
| 59 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 56 hunting | obl |
| 60 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 came | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | past | hills = hill | rough rocky ground | soon property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to ground=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | miss | past | the Goat | Goat's footing | here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer footing=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | fall | past | the Goat not said here | into a deep narrow cleft between two rocks result | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient into cleft=Result | ||||
| 4 | break | gerund | the Goat not said here | Goat's leg | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer leg=Patient | ||||
| 5 | not see | past · perfect | the Wolf | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | happen | past · perfect | what nsubj | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | jump | past | the Wolf | the crevice | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over crevice=Trajectory | ||||
| 8 | pursue | past | the Wolf not said here | Goat's way | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent way=Theme | ||||
| 9 | hunt | gerund | the Wolf not said here | still | for the Goat | vn hunt-35.1 «NP V PP.theme PP.location»: agent=Agent for goat=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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