Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 43
I am unable to move, and the Wolf jumped over the crevice as I lay here and has gone right away.
Who acts: I, Wolf · What happens: be, move, jump, lay, go · To what, where: crevice
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, 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 | 3 unable | nsubj |
| 2 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 unable | cop |
| 3 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 move | mark |
| 5 | move | move | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 unable | xcomp |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 jumped | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 jumped | cc |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Wolf | det |
| 9 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | nsubj |
| 10 | jumped | jump | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 unable | conj |
| 11 | over | over | ADP | _ | 13 crevice | case |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 crevice | det |
| 13 | crevice | crevice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 jumped | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 lay | mark |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 lay | nsubj |
| 16 | lay | lay | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 jumped | advcl |
| 17 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 lay | advmod |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 gone | cc |
| 19 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 gone | aux |
| 20 | gone | go | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 3 unable | conj |
| 21 | right | right | ADV | _ | 22 away | advmod |
| 22 | away | away | ADV | _ | 20 gone | advmod |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 unable | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | move | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP.theme V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | jump | past | the Wolf | the crevice | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme over crevice=Trajectory | ||||
| 4 | lay | present | I | here | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | go | present · perfect | I not said here | away property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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