Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 35
As soon as he was out of sight the Hare saw two Ravens sitting in a tree overhead.
Who acts: Man, Hare, two Ravens · What happens: be, see, sit · To what, where: sight, two Ravens, tree overhead
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 (Man, Hare, two Ravens), 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 | As | as | ADV | _ | 2 soon | advmod |
| 2 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 11 saw | advmod |
| 3 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 sight | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 sight | nsubj |
| 5 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 sight | cop |
| 6 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 sight | case |
| 8 | sight | sight | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 soon | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Hare | det |
| 10 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 saw | nsubj |
| 11 | saw | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 Ravens | nummod |
| 13 | Ravens | raven | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 saw | obj |
| 14 | sitting | sit | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 Ravens | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 overhead | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 overhead | det |
| 17 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 overhead | compound |
| 18 | overhead | overhead | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sitting | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 saw | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | past | Man | sight | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | see | past | the Hare | two Ravens | soon property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer raven=Stimulus | |||
| 3 | sit | gerund | two Ravens not said here | a tree overhead | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent in overhead=Location |
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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