Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 1
A hare was going along a road one day, when suddenly, on turning a corner, he came upon a large Tiger.
Who acts: hare · What happens: go, turn, come · To what, where: road, corner
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How the Hare Got His Split Lip.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hare), 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 | A | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 2 hare | det |
| 2 | hare | hare | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | aux |
| 4 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | along | along | ADP | _ | 7 road | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 road | det |
| 7 | road | road | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 day | nummod |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 going | obl:unmarked |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 suddenly | punct |
| 11 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 12 suddenly | advmod |
| 12 | suddenly | suddenly | ADV | _ | 4 going | advmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 turning | punct |
| 14 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 15 turning | mark |
| 15 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 going | conj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 corner | det |
| 17 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 turning | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 came | punct |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 came | nsubj |
| 20 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 going | conj |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 24 Tiger | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 Tiger | det |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 Tiger | amod |
| 24 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 came | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 going | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | past · progressive | a hare | a road | day | suddenly property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme along road=Initial_Location | ||
| 2 | turn | gerund | a hare not said here | a corner | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent corner=Theme | ||||
| 3 | come | past | hare | upon a large Tiger | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme upon tiger=Location |
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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