Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 48
The Wolf at once rushed down the hill into the middle of the flock of Sheep, scattering them all in every direction, and killing as many as he thought he required for his own use.
Who acts: flock · What happens: rush, scatter, kill, think, require, use · To what, where: Wolf, middle, Sheep, direction, many · 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 (flock), 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 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 2 Wolf | det |
| 2 | Wolf | wolf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rushed | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | at | at | SCONJ | _ | 5 rushed | mark |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 5 rushed | advmod |
| 5 | rushed | rush | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | down | down | ADP | _ | 8 hill | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 hill | det |
| 8 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rushed | obl |
| 9 | into | into | ADP | _ | 11 middle | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 middle | det |
| 11 | middle | middle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 rushed | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 flock | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 flock | det |
| 14 | flock | flock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 middle | nmod |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 Sheep | case |
| 16 | Sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 flock | nmod |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 scattering | punct |
| 18 | scattering | scatter | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 rushed | advcl |
| 19 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 scattering | obj |
| 20 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 them | nmod:unmarked |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 direction | case |
| 22 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 23 direction | det |
| 23 | direction | direction | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 scattering | obl |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 killing | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 killing | cc |
| 26 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 scattering | conj |
| 27 | as | as | ADV | _ | 28 many | advmod |
| 28 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 killing | obj |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 thought | mark |
| 30 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 thought | nsubj |
| 31 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 28 many | advcl |
| 32 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 required | nsubj |
| 33 | required | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 31 thought | ccomp |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 use | case |
| 35 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 use | nmod:poss |
| 36 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 use | amod |
| 37 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 required | obl |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 rushed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rush | participle · passive | the Wolf | the middle of the flock of Sheep | down the hill; once property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V NP PP.source PP.destination PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme down hill=Initial_Location into middle=Destination | |||
| 2 | scatter | gerund | Sheep | every direction | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent they=Theme in direction=Destination | ||||
| 3 | kill | gerund | many | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent many=Theme | |||||
| 4 | think speech: other | past | flock | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 5 | require | past | flock | for flock's own use | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | use | flock | nom use «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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