Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 41

I am Pen-dzong the Goat, and I and my friend Da-gye the Sheep hunted a Wolf into his lair this morning and tried to frighten him by telling him that we were going to skin him; and while I was away getting myself something to drink and eat the Wolf came out of his den and killed my poor friend Da-gye the Sheep, and then proceeded to chase me.

Who acts: I, Sheep, we, Wolf, poor friend · What happens: be, gye, hunt, try, frighten, tell · To what, where: Pen dzong, Wolf, lair, Goat, skin, myself · 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 (I, Sheep, we, 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 dzong	nsubj
2	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	5 dzong	cop
3	Pen	Penn	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dzong	compound
4	-	-	PUNCT	_	5 dzong	punct
5	dzong	dzong	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
6	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	7 Goat	det
7	Goat	Goat	PROPN	Number=Sing	5 dzong	appos
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 gye	punct
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gye	cc
10	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 gye	nsubj
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 gye	cc
12	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	13 friend	nmod:poss
13	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 gye	compound
14	Da	Da	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 friend	appos
15	-	-	PUNCT	_	14 Da	punct
16	gye	gye	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 dzong	conj
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	18 Sheep	det
18	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	19 hunted	nsubj
19	hunted	hunt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 gye	parataxis
20	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	21 Wolf	det
21	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	19 hunted	obj
22	into	into	ADP	_	24 lair	case
23	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	24 lair	nmod:poss
24	lair	lair	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunted	obl
25	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	26 morning	det
26	morning	morning	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hunted	obl:unmarked
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	28 tried	cc
28	tried	try	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	19 hunted	conj
29	to	to	PART	_	30 frighten	mark
30	frighten	frighten	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	28 tried	xcomp
31	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	30 frighten	obj
32	by	by	SCONJ	_	33 telling	mark
33	telling	tell	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	30 frighten	advcl
34	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	33 telling	iobj
35	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 going	mark
36	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 going	nsubj
37	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	38 going	aux
38	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	33 telling	ccomp
39	to	to	PART	_	40 skin	mark
40	skin	skin	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 going	obj
41	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	40 skin	nmod:unmarked
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	50 something	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	48 getting	cc
44	while	while	SCONJ	_	48 getting	mark
45	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	48 getting	nsubj
46	was	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	48 getting	aux
47	away	away	ADV	_	48 getting	advmod
48	getting	get	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	50 something	amod
49	myself	myself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	48 getting	obj
50	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	5 dzong	conj
51	to	to	PART	_	52 drink	mark
52	drink	drink	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	50 something	acl
53	and	and	CCONJ	_	54 eat	cc
54	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	52 drink	conj
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	56 Wolf	det
56	Wolf	Wolf	PROPN	Number=Sing	57 came	nsubj
57	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	54 eat	ccomp
58	out	out	ADP	_	61 den	case
59	of	of	ADP	_	61 den	case
60	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	61 den	nmod:poss
61	den	den	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 came	obl
62	and	and	CCONJ	_	63 killed	cc
63	killed	kill	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	57 came	conj
64	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	66 friend	nmod:poss
65	poor	poor	ADJ	Degree=Pos	66 friend	amod
66	friend	friend	NOUN	Number=Sing	69 gye	nsubj
67	Da	Da	PROPN	Number=Sing	69 gye	compound
68	-	-	PUNCT	_	69 gye	punct
69	gye	gye	NOUN	Number=Sing	63 killed	ccomp
70	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	71 Sheep	det
71	Sheep	sheep	NOUN	Number=Plur	69 gye	conj
72	,	,	PUNCT	_	75 proceeded	punct
73	and	and	CCONJ	_	75 proceeded	cc
74	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	75 proceeded	advmod
75	proceeded	proceed	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	5 dzong	parataxis
76	to	to	PART	_	77 chase	mark
77	chase	chase	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	75 proceeded	xcomp
78	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	77 chase	obj
79	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 dzong	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	is a	present	I	Pen dzong and friend gye				the Goat appos; something conj	tree rules
2	gye		I						tree rules
3	hunt	past	the Sheep	a Wolf		Goat's lair	morning		vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme
4	try	past	the Sheep not said here						vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
5	frighten not said to happen	to-infinitive	the Sheep not said here	Goat					vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer
6	tell speech: assert	gerund	the Sheep not said here		Goat				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
7	go	past · progressive	we	skin Goat					vn meander-47.7 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location skin=Theme
8	get	past · progressive	I	myself				away property	vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer myself=Stimulus
9	drink	to-infinitive	I not said here						vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
10	eat	infinitive	I not said here						tree rules
11	come out	past	the Wolf	Goat's den					vn become-109.1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient den=Result
12	kill	past	the Wolf not said here						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
13	gye		my poor friend					the Sheep conj	tree rules
14	proceed	past					then		vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
15	chase	to-infinitive		me					vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 41