Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 29
The Tiger, anxious to please the Hare, opened his mouth to say “Ah!” and was instantly precipitated to the bottom of the gulf, where he fell upon some rocks and was killed.
Who acts: Tiger · What happens: please, open, say, precipitate, fall, kill · To what, where: Hare, mouth, rocks · 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 (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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Tiger | det |
| 2 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 anxious | punct |
| 4 | anxious | anxious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Tiger | amod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 please | mark |
| 6 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 anxious | xcomp |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Hare | det |
| 8 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 please | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tiger | punct |
| 10 | opened | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 mouth | nmod:poss |
| 12 | mouth | mouth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 opened | obj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 say | mark |
| 14 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 opened | advcl |
| 15 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ah | punct |
| 16 | Ah | ah | INTJ | _ | 14 say | obj |
| 17 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ah | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 Ah | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 precipitated | cc |
| 20 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 precipitated | aux:pass |
| 21 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 22 precipitated | advmod |
| 22 | precipitated | precipitate | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 10 opened | conj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 bottom | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 bottom | det |
| 25 | bottom | bottom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 precipitated | obl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 gulf | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 gulf | det |
| 28 | gulf | gulf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 bottom | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fell | punct |
| 30 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 32 fell | advmod |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 fell | nsubj |
| 32 | fell | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 gulf | acl:relcl |
| 33 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 35 rocks | case |
| 34 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 35 rocks | det |
| 35 | rocks | rock | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 fell | obl |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 killed | cc |
| 37 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 38 killed | aux:pass |
| 38 | killed | kill | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 32 fell | conj |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 opened | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | please | to-infinitive | the Tiger not said here | the Hare | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus hare=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | open | past | the Tiger | Tiger's mouth | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location mouth=Theme | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | the Tiger not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent ah=Topic | |||||
| 4 | precipitate | past · passive | the Tiger not said here | to the bottom of the gulf; instantly property | vn weather-57 «It V PP.theme» | ||||
| 5 | fall | past | Tiger | some rocks | vn occur-48.3 «NP V PP»: agent=Theme upon rock=Location | ||||
| 6 | kill | past · passive | Tiger not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle» |
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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