Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 93
At the first sound of his voice the men in the next room stopped their feasting, and saying to one another, “There is a Wolf in the house,” they rushed towards the larder.
Who acts: men, Wolf · What happens: stop, say, be, rush, feast · To what, where: feasting, first sound, one · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (men, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 4 sound | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 sound | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 sound | amod |
| 4 | sound | sound | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stopped | obl |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 voice | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 voice | nmod:poss |
| 7 | voice | voice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sound | nmod |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 men | det |
| 9 | men | man | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 stopped | nsubj |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 room | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 room | det |
| 12 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 room | amod |
| 13 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 men | nmod |
| 14 | stopped | stop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 15 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 feasting | nmod:poss |
| 16 | feasting | feasting | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 stopped | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 saying | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 saying | cc |
| 19 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 14 stopped | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 one | case |
| 21 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 saying | obl |
| 22 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 21 one | fixed |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 24 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 25 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 26 is | expl |
| 26 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 rushed | ccomp |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 Wolf | det |
| 28 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 is | nsubj |
| 29 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 house | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 house | det |
| 31 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 Wolf | nmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 is | punct |
| 34 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 rushed | nsubj |
| 35 | rushed | rush | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 19 saying | ccomp |
| 36 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 38 larder | case |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 38 larder | det |
| 38 | larder | larder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 rushed | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 stopped | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | stop | past | the men in the next room | men's feasting | the first sound of Fox's voice | vn stop-55.4-1-1 «NP V NP.eventuality»: agent=Affector feasting=Eventuality | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | gerund | the men in the next room not said here | one | vn indicate-78-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to one=Experiencer clause=Topic | ||||
| 3 | be in a quote | present | a Wolf in the house | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | rush | past | men = man | towards the larder | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | feast | men = man | nom feasting «act 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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