Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 49
Meanwhile the Hare proceeded to the top of a high hill whence he could survey the whole country.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: proceed, survey · To what, where: whole country
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), 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 | Meanwhile | meanwhile | ADV | _ | 4 proceeded | advmod |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Hare | det |
| 3 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 proceeded | nsubj |
| 4 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 top | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 top | det |
| 7 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 proceeded | obl |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 hill | case |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 hill | det |
| 10 | high | high | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 hill | amod |
| 11 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 top | nmod |
| 12 | whence | whence | ADV | PronType=Int | 15 survey | advmod |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 survey | nsubj |
| 14 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 survey | aux |
| 15 | survey | survey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 proceeded | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 country | det |
| 17 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 country | amod |
| 18 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 survey | obj |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 proceeded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | proceed | past | the Hare | to the top of a high hill; meanwhile property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | survey | could | hare | the whole country | whence property | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent country=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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