Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 17
The Tiger was now quite blind, and the Hare led him along to the brink of a deep gulf, where he advised the Tiger to sit down and rest for a while.
Who acts: Tiger, Hare · What happens: be, lead, advise, sit down, rest · To what, where: Tiger, brink
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 (Tiger, 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tiger | det |
| 2 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 blind | nsubj |
| 3 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blind | cop |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 blind | advmod |
| 5 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 6 blind | advmod |
| 6 | blind | blind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 led | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 led | cc |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hare | det |
| 10 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 led | nsubj |
| 11 | led | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 blind | parataxis |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 led | obj |
| 13 | along | along | ADV | _ | 11 led | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 16 brink | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 brink | det |
| 16 | brink | brink | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 led | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 gulf | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 gulf | det |
| 19 | deep | deep | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 gulf | amod |
| 20 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 brink | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 advised | punct |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 24 advised | advmod |
| 23 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 advised | nsubj |
| 24 | advised | advise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 20 gulf | acl:relcl |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Tiger | det |
| 26 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 advised | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 sit | mark |
| 28 | sit | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 advised | xcomp |
| 29 | down | down | ADP | _ | 28 sit | compound:prt |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 rest | cc |
| 31 | rest | rest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 sit | conj |
| 32 | for | for | ADP | _ | 34 while | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 while | det |
| 34 | while | while | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 rest | obl |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 blind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | the Tiger | now | blind property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | lead | past | the Hare | Tiger | the brink of a deep gulf | along property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme to brink=Destination | ||
| 3 | advise speech: other | past | hare | the Tiger | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent tiger=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | sit down not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Tiger not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | rest | infinitive | the Tiger not said here | while | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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