Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 39
Why don’t you come down and feed on the sores on their backs?”
Who acts: you · What happens: not come down, feed
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 (you), 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 | Why | why | ADV | PronType=Int | 3 n’t | advmod |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 n’t | aux |
| 3 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 feed | cc |
| 8 | feed | feed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | conj |
| 9 | on | on | ADP | _ | 11 sores | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 sores | det |
| 11 | sores | sore | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feed | obl |
| 12 | on | on | ADP | _ | 14 backs | case |
| 13 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 backs | nmod:poss |
| 14 | backs | back | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 feed | obl |
| 15 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 16 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come down | present | you | down property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | feed | present | you not said here | on sores's backs; on the sores | vn gorge-39.6 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on sore=Patient |
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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