Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 53
He and his friend Da-gye the Sheep have both been killed by a Wolf, and he begged me after his death to strip off his skin and to take it as a last present from him to his young ones.”
Who acts: Wolf, Goat · What happens: kill, beg, strip off, take, die · To what, where: Goat, me, skin, young ones
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 (Wolf, 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 killed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 gye | cc |
| 3 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 friend | nmod:poss |
| 4 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 gye | compound |
| 5 | Da | Da | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 friend | appos |
| 6 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 5 Da | punct |
| 7 | gye | gye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 He | conj |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Sheep | det |
| 9 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 He | conj |
| 10 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | aux |
| 11 | both | both | ADV | _ | 13 killed | advmod |
| 12 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 13 killed | aux:pass |
| 13 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 Wolf | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 Wolf | det |
| 16 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 killed | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 begged | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 begged | cc |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 begged | nsubj |
| 20 | begged | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 killed | conj |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 begged | obj |
| 22 | after | after | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 death | nmod:poss |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 begged | obl |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 strip | mark |
| 26 | strip | strip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 begged | advcl |
| 27 | off | off | ADP | _ | 26 strip | compound:prt |
| 28 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 skin | nmod:poss |
| 29 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 strip | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 take | cc |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 take | mark |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 strip | conj |
| 33 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 take | obj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 37 present | case |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 present | det |
| 36 | last | last | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 present | amod |
| 37 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obl |
| 38 | from | from | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 take | obl |
| 40 | to | to | ADP | _ | 43 ones | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 ones | nmod:poss |
| 42 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 ones | amod |
| 43 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 take | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 killed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | kill | present · perfect · passive | a Wolf | Goat | both property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent subject=Theme | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | past | Goat | me | after Goat's death | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | strip off | to-infinitive | Goat not said here | Goat's skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 4 | take | to-infinitive | Goat not said here | skin | Goat's young ones | as a last present; from Goat | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme from he=Initial_Location to one=Destination | ||
| 5 | die | Goat | nom death «event intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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