Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 3
“Please, please, Uncle Tiger,” said the Hare, holding up his thumbs in supplication, “please don’t eat me, I am only a very small beast, and will make a very insufficient meal for a great big animal like you.
Who acts: Uncle Tiger · What happens: say, hold up, not eat, be, make · To what, where: thumbs, supplication, Uncle Tiger, small beast, insufficient meal · 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 (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 | _ | 10 said | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 7 Tiger | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Please | punct |
| 4 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 7 Tiger | discourse |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 please | punct |
| 6 | Uncle | Uncle | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 Tiger | compound |
| 7 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tiger | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 Tiger | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hare | det |
| 12 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 holding | punct |
| 14 | holding | hold | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 said | advcl |
| 15 | up | up | ADP | _ | 14 holding | compound:prt |
| 16 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 thumbs | nmod:poss |
| 17 | thumbs | thumb | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 holding | obj |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 supplication | case |
| 19 | supplication | supplication | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 holding | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 eat | punct |
| 21 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 eat | punct |
| 22 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 25 eat | discourse |
| 23 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 eat | aux |
| 24 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 eat | advmod |
| 25 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 said | parataxis |
| 26 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 eat | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 beast | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 beast | nsubj |
| 29 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 34 beast | cop |
| 30 | only | only | ADV | _ | 34 beast | advmod |
| 31 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 beast | det |
| 32 | very | very | ADV | _ | 33 small | advmod |
| 33 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 34 beast | amod |
| 34 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 eat | parataxis |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 make | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 make | cc |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 make | aux |
| 38 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 meal | det |
| 40 | very | very | ADV | _ | 41 insufficient | advmod |
| 41 | insufficient | insufficient | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 42 meal | amod |
| 42 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 make | obj |
| 43 | for | for | ADP | _ | 47 animal | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 47 animal | det |
| 45 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 animal | amod |
| 46 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 47 animal | amod |
| 47 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 meal | nmod |
| 48 | like | like | ADP | _ | 49 you | case |
| 49 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 animal | nmod |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Uncle Tiger | the Hare nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | hold up | gerund | Uncle Tiger not said here | hare's thumbs | supplication | vn support-15.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot thumb=Theme | |||
| 3 | not eat in a quote | infinitive · do-support | Uncle Tiger = tiger | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient | |||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | present | Uncle Tiger = tiger | a small beast | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make in a quote | future | Uncle Tiger not said here | a insufficient meal | for a great big animal like you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meal=Product for animal=Beneficiary |
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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