Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 45
So the Hare pointed out to him the tree where the Raven’s nest was, and the Boy ran off to get the eggs, after first asking the Hare to take charge of the Sheep for him while he was away.
Who acts: Hare, tree, Boy · What happens: point out, be, run off, get, ask, take · To what, where: Brother, eggs, Hare, charge, Sheep
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, tree, Boy), 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 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 tree | det |
| 9 | tree | tree | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 15 was | advmod |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Raven | det |
| 12 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 nest | nmod:poss |
| 13 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 12 Raven | case |
| 14 | nest | nest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 was | nsubj |
| 15 | was | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pointed | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 ran | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 ran | cc |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 Boy | det |
| 19 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 ran | nsubj |
| 20 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 4 pointed | conj |
| 21 | off | off | ADP | _ | 20 ran | compound:prt |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 get | mark |
| 23 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 ran | advcl |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 eggs | det |
| 25 | eggs | egg | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 get | obj |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 asking | punct |
| 27 | after | after | SCONJ | _ | 29 asking | mark |
| 28 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 29 asking | advmod |
| 29 | asking | ask | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 20 ran | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 Hare | det |
| 31 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 asking | obj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 take | mark |
| 33 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 asking | xcomp |
| 34 | charge | charge | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 take | obj |
| 35 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 Sheep | case |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 Sheep | det |
| 37 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 charge | nmod |
| 38 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 him | case |
| 39 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 take | obl |
| 40 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 43 away | mark |
| 41 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 43 away | nsubj |
| 42 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 43 away | cop |
| 43 | away | away | ADV | _ | 33 take | advcl |
| 44 | . | . | 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 | be | past | the tree | the Raven's nest nsubj | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | run off | past | the Boy | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | get | to-infinitive | the Boy not said here | the eggs | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer egg=Stimulus | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | gerund | the Boy not said here | the Hare | first property | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent hare=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 6 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | the Boy not said here | charge of the Sheep | for Boy | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent charge=Theme for he=Beneficiary | |||
| 7 | is | past | tree | away property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | charge | the Sheep | nom charge «act transitive»: of=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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