Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 47
“Good-morning, Brother Wolf, do you know that there is a fine flock of Sheep quite unguarded down there, and I should advise you to take advantage of this opportunity of killing some of them.”
Who acts: you, fine flock, hare, opportunity · What happens: know, be, unguard down, advise, take, kill · To what, where: you, advantage, some · 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 (you, fine flock, hare, opportunity), 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 | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 know | obl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 6 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Brother | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 9 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | aux |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 know | nsubj |
| 11 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 is | mark |
| 13 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 14 is | expl |
| 14 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 unguarded | advcl |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 flock | det |
| 16 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 flock | amod |
| 17 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 unguarded | nsubj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 Sheep | case |
| 19 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 flock | nmod |
| 20 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 21 unguarded | advmod |
| 21 | unguarded | unguard | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 11 know | ccomp |
| 22 | down | down | ADV | _ | 21 unguarded | advmod |
| 23 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 unguarded | advmod |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 advise | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 advise | cc |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 advise | nsubj |
| 27 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 advise | aux |
| 28 | advise | advise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 know | parataxis |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 advise | obj |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 take | mark |
| 31 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 advise | xcomp |
| 32 | advantage | advantage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 opportunity | case |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 opportunity | det |
| 35 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 take | obl |
| 36 | of | of | SCONJ | _ | 37 killing | mark |
| 37 | killing | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 35 opportunity | acl |
| 38 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 37 killing | obj |
| 39 | of | of | ADP | _ | 40 them | case |
| 40 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 some | nmod |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | present · do-support | you | morning | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | ||||
| 2 | be in a quote | present | a fine flock of Sheep not said here | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | unguard down in a quote | past | a fine flock of Sheep | there | down property | tree rules | |||
| 4 | advise speech: other in a quote | should | hare | you | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | take not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | advantage | of this opportunity | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP PP.initial_location»: agent=Agent advantage=Theme of opportunity=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | kill in a quote | gerund | this opportunity not said here | some of Sheep | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent some=Theme |
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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