Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 69
“What I advise now is as follows: let us each take some provisions, as much as we can carry, and bring them with us to our own homes, so that we may have something to go on with when we next feel hungry.
Who acts: Fox, us, we · What happens: advise, be, let, take, carry, bring · To what, where: us, provisions, own homes, something
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 (Fox, us, we), 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 | _ | 8 follows | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 advise | obj |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 advise | nsubj |
| 4 | advise | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 follows | advcl |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 advise | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 follows | cop |
| 7 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 follows | mark |
| 8 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 8 follows | parataxis |
| 11 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 us | nmod:unmarked |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 provisions | det |
| 15 | provisions | provision | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 take | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 much | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | _ | 18 much | advmod |
| 18 | much | much | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 take | obj |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 22 carry | mark |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 carry | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 carry | aux |
| 22 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 much | acl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 bring | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 bring | cc |
| 25 | bring | bring | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 let | conj |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 28 us | case |
| 28 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 bring | obl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 homes | case |
| 30 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 homes | nmod:poss |
| 31 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 homes | amod |
| 32 | homes | home | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 bring | obl |
| 33 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 have | punct |
| 34 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 38 have | mark |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 34 so | fixed |
| 36 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 have | nsubj |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | aux |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | conj |
| 39 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 38 have | obj |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 go | mark |
| 41 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 something | acl |
| 42 | on | on | ADV | _ | 41 go | advmod |
| 43 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 47 feel | mark |
| 44 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 47 feel | advmod |
| 45 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 feel | nsubj |
| 46 | next | next | ADV | _ | 47 feel | advmod |
| 47 | feel | feel | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 go | advcl |
| 48 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 feel | xcomp |
| 49 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 follows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | advise speech: other in a quote | present | the Fox = fox | now | What obj | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent what=Recipient | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | follow property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | take in a quote | infinitive | us not said here | some provisions | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument provision=Theme much=Destination | ||||
| 5 | carry in a quote | can | we | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | bring in a quote | infinitive | provisions = provision | our own homes | with us | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme to home=Destination | |||
| 7 | have in a quote | may | we | something | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent something=Patient | ||||
| 8 | go on in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | something not said here | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 9 | feel in a quote | present | we | hungry, next property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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.
This page in Markdown → https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/12/69/