Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 24
“Oh, Uncle Tiger, Uncle Tiger, are you safe?”
Who acts: Uncle Tiger · What happens: be
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 (Uncle Tiger), 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 | _ | 12 safe | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 Tiger | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tiger | compound |
| 5 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 safe | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Tiger | punct |
| 7 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Tiger | compound |
| 8 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Tiger | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Tiger | punct |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 safe | cop |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 safe | nsubj |
| 12 | safe | safe | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 13 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 12 safe | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 safe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Uncle Tiger and Uncle Tiger | you nsubj; safe 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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