Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 52
“This is the skin of Pen-dzong the Goat, whom I found lying in a cleft between two rocks with a broken leg.
Who acts: This, Fox, Goat · What happens: be, find, lie, break · To what, where: skin, Goat, cleft
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 (This, Fox, Goat), 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 | _ | 5 skin | punct |
| 2 | This | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 skin | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 skin | cop |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 skin | det |
| 5 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 dzong | case |
| 7 | Pen | Penn | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dzong | compound |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 Pen | punct |
| 9 | dzong | dzong | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 skin | nmod |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Goat | det |
| 11 | Goat | Goat | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 dzong | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 found | punct |
| 13 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 15 found | obj |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 found | nsubj |
| 15 | found | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 Goat | acl:relcl |
| 16 | lying | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 15 found | xcomp |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 cleft | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cleft | det |
| 19 | cleft | cleft | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | obl |
| 20 | between | between | ADP | _ | 22 rocks | case |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 rocks | nummod |
| 22 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lying | obl |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 leg | case |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 leg | det |
| 25 | broken | break | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 26 leg | amod |
| 26 | leg | leg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lying | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 skin | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | This | the skin | of Pen dzong | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find in a quote | past | the Fox = fox | the Goat | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent whom=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lie in a quote | gerund | the Goat not said here | a cleft | between two rocks; with a broken leg | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in cleft=Location | |||
| 4 | break in a quote | participle | vn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Patient |
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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