Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 15
“I am eating my other eye, Uncle Tiger,” replied the Hare; “it is even better than the first.”
Who acts: Hare, eye · What happens: eat, reply, be · To what, where: other eye · Speech: someone speaks here
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, eye), 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 | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 eating | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 eating | aux |
| 4 | eating | eat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 13 replied | ccomp |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 eye | nmod:poss |
| 6 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 eye | amod |
| 7 | eye | eye | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 eating | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Tiger | punct |
| 9 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Tiger | compound |
| 10 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 eye | appos |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 eating | punct |
| 13 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 Hare | det |
| 15 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 replied | nsubj |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 better | punct |
| 17 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 better | punct |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 better | nsubj |
| 19 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 better | cop |
| 20 | even | even | ADV | _ | 21 better | advmod |
| 21 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 replied | parataxis |
| 22 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 first | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 first | det |
| 24 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 21 better | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 better | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | eat in a quote | present · progressive | the Hare = hare | my other eye | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent eye=Patient | ||||
| 2 | reply speech: assert | past | the Hare | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | eye | than the first; good property | tree rules |
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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