Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 1
One day a hungry Wolf was roaming about in search of something to eat in the upper part of a Tibetan valley far beyond the level of cultivation, [3] when he came across a young Kyang [4] about a year old.
Who acts: hungry Wolf, Wolf · What happens: roam, eat, come, search · To what, where: upper part, old, young Kyang, something
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (hungry Wolf, Wolf), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roaming | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 Wolf | det |
| 4 | hungry | hungry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 Wolf | amod |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 roaming | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 7 roaming | aux |
| 7 | roaming | roam | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 8 | about | about | ADP | _ | 10 search | case |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 10 search | case |
| 10 | search | search | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 roaming | obl |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 something | case |
| 12 | something | something | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 10 search | nmod |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 eat | mark |
| 14 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 something | acl |
| 15 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 part | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 part | det |
| 17 | upper | upper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 part | amod |
| 18 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eat | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 valley | case |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 22 valley | det |
| 21 | Tibetan | Tibetan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 valley | compound |
| 22 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 part | nmod |
| 23 | far | far | ADV | Degree=Pos | 26 level | advmod |
| 24 | beyond | beyond | ADP | _ | 26 level | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 level | det |
| 26 | level | level | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 eat | obl |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 cultivation | case |
| 28 | cultivation | cultivation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 level | nmod |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 3 | punct |
| 30 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 31 3 | punct |
| 31 | 3 | 3 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 26 level | parataxis |
| 32 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 31 3 | punct |
| 33 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 35 came | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 came | nsubj |
| 35 | came | come | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 eat | advcl |
| 36 | across | across | ADP | _ | 39 Kyang | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 39 Kyang | det |
| 38 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 Kyang | amod |
| 39 | Kyang | Kyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 35 came | obl |
| 40 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 41 4 | punct |
| 41 | 4 | 4 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 39 Kyang | appos |
| 42 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 41 4 | punct |
| 43 | about | about | ADP | _ | 45 year | case |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 year | det |
| 45 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 old | obl:unmarked |
| 46 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 came | obl |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 roaming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | roam | past · progressive | a hungry Wolf | day | about search of something | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about search=Trajectory | |||
| 2 | eat | to-infinitive | a hungry Wolf not said here | the upper part of a Tibetan valley | beyond the level of cultivation | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | come | past | Wolf | old about a year | a young Kyang | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme across kyang=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | search | something | nom search «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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