Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 34
So the Hare pointed out to him where the dead Tiger lay in the ravine, and the Man hastened off to skin it, after first asking the Hare to take care of his Horses while he was away.
Who acts: Hare, dead Tiger, Man · What happens: point out, lie, hasten off, ask, take, be · To what, where: Brother, skin, ravine, Hare, care
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, dead Tiger, Man), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 pointed | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hare | det |
| 3 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 pointed | nsubj |
| 4 | pointed | point | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | out | out | ADP | _ | 4 pointed | compound:prt |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 pointed | obl |
| 8 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 lay | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Tiger | det |
| 10 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Tiger | amod |
| 11 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | nsubj |
| 12 | lay | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pointed | advcl |
| 13 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 ravine | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 ravine | det |
| 15 | ravine | ravine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 lay | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 hastened | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 hastened | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Man | det |
| 19 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hastened | nsubj |
| 20 | hastened | hasten | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 lay | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 hastened | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 skin | mark |
| 23 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 hastened | advcl |
| 24 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 lay | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 asking | punct |
| 26 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 28 asking | mark |
| 27 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 28 asking | advmod |
| 28 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 12 lay | advcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Hare | det |
| 30 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 asking | obj |
| 31 | to | to | PART | _ | 32 take | mark |
| 32 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 asking | xcomp |
| 33 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 take | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 Horses | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 Horses | nmod:poss |
| 36 | Horses | horse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 32 take | obl |
| 37 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 40 away | mark |
| 38 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 40 away | nsubj |
| 39 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 away | cop |
| 40 | away | away | ADV | _ | 32 take | advcl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 pointed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | point out | past | the Hare | Brother | vn wink-40.3.1 «NP V PP.recipient»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | lie | past | the dead Tiger | skin | the ravine | vn spatial_configuration-47.6 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location it=Theme | |||
| 3 | hasten off | participle | the Man | skin advcl | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the dead Tiger not said here | the Hare | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent hare=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the dead Tiger not said here | care | of Man's Horses | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent care=Theme of horse=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | is | past | Man | away 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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