Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 93
“Well,” said the Hare, “it is such a complicated story that it is difficult to follow it exactly.
Who acts: Hare, momentous · What happens: say, be, follow · To what, where: complicated story, momentous · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, momentous), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hare | det |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 story | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 story | punct |
| 10 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 story | nsubj |
| 11 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 story | cop |
| 12 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 story | det:predet |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 story | det |
| 14 | complicated | complicated | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 story | amod |
| 15 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 said | ccomp |
| 16 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 difficult | mark |
| 17 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 difficult | expl |
| 18 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 difficult | cop |
| 19 | difficult | difficult | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 story | appos |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 follow | mark |
| 21 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 difficult | csubj |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 follow | obj |
| 23 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 21 follow | advmod |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Hare | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | momentous | such complicated story | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | difficult property | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | follow in a quote | to-infinitive | momentous | exactly property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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