Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 56
But, nevertheless, I am not going to let the Wolf get the best of me like this, and kill my friends with impunity.
Who acts: I, going · What happens: not go, let, get, kill · To what, where: Wolf, best, friends
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, going), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 get | cc |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 3 | nevertheless | nevertheless | ADV | _ | 8 going | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 going | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 going | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 going | aux |
| 7 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 8 going | advmod |
| 8 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 get | csubj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 let | mark |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 going | xcomp |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wolf | det |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 let | obj |
| 13 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Ind Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 best | det |
| 15 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 13 get | obj |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 me | case |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 best | obl |
| 18 | like | like | ADP | _ | 19 this | case |
| 19 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 best | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kill | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kill | cc |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 get | conj |
| 23 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 friends | nmod:poss |
| 24 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 22 kill | obj |
| 25 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 impunity | case |
| 26 | impunity | impunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kill | obl |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not go | present · progressive | I | nevertheless property | vn say-37.7 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | let | to-infinitive | I not said here | the Wolf | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=Theme | ||||
| 3 | get | present | going | the best of me like this | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer good=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | going not said here | my friends | with impunity | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent friend=Patient with impunity=Instrument |
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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