Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 11
“Oh!” replied the Wolf, “I am going into the valley to meet a young Kyang by appointment, as I have arranged to catch him and eat him this very day.”
Who acts: Wolf · What happens: reply, go, meet, arrange, catch, eat · To what, where: valley, young Kyang, Wolf · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 5 replied | discourse |
| 3 | ! | ! | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Wolf | det |
| 7 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 going | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 going | nsubj |
| 11 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 going | aux |
| 12 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 5 replied | advcl |
| 13 | into | into | ADP | _ | 15 valley | case |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 valley | det |
| 15 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 going | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 meet | mark |
| 17 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 going | advcl |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 Kyang | det |
| 19 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 Kyang | amod |
| 20 | Kyang | Kyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 meet | obj |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 22 appointment | case |
| 22 | appointment | appointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 meet | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 arranged | punct |
| 24 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 arranged | mark |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 arranged | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 arranged | aux |
| 27 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 17 meet | advcl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 catch | mark |
| 29 | catch | catch | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 arranged | xcomp |
| 30 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 catch | obj |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 eat | cc |
| 32 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 catch | conj |
| 33 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 32 eat | obj |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 day | det |
| 35 | very | very | ADV | _ | 36 day | advmod |
| 36 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 eat | obl:unmarked |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | the Wolf | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go in a quote | present · progressive | the Wolf = wolf | the valley | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into valley=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | meet in a quote | to-infinitive | the Wolf = wolf not said here | a young Kyang | by appointment | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kyang=Co-Agent | |||
| 4 | arrange in a quote | present · perfect | the Wolf = wolf | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | catch in a quote | to-infinitive | the Wolf = wolf not said here | Wolf | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 6 | eat in a quote | infinitive | the Wolf = wolf not said here | Wolf | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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