Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 19
“Good-morning, Brother Hare,” replied the Wolf; “I am just going off to yonder valley to keep an appointment with a fat Kyang, whom I have arranged to kill and eat this very day, and Brother Fox is coming with me to share in the spoil.”
Who acts: Good morning, Brother Fox · What happens: reply, go off, keep, arrange, kill, eat · To what, where: Wolf, appointment, fat Kyang, spoil · 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 (Good morning, Brother Fox), 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 | _ | 4 morning | punct |
| 2 | Good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 morning | amod |
| 3 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 2 Good | punct |
| 4 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 6 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 morning | appos |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 Brother | flat |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 Brother | punct |
| 10 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Wolf | det |
| 12 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 replied | obj |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 going | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 going | nsubj |
| 16 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 going | aux |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 going | advmod |
| 18 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | advcl |
| 19 | off | off | ADP | _ | 18 going | compound:prt |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 valley | case |
| 21 | yonder | yonder | ADV | _ | 22 valley | advmod |
| 22 | valley | valley | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 going | obl |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 keep | mark |
| 24 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 going | advcl |
| 25 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 appointment | det |
| 26 | appointment | appointment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obj |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 30 Kyang | case |
| 28 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 Kyang | det |
| 29 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 Kyang | amod |
| 30 | Kyang | Kyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 24 keep | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 arranged | punct |
| 32 | whom | whom | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 arranged | obj |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 arranged | nsubj |
| 34 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 35 arranged | aux |
| 35 | arranged | arrange | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 30 Kyang | acl:relcl |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 kill | mark |
| 37 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 35 arranged | xcomp |
| 38 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 eat | cc |
| 39 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 kill | conj |
| 40 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 42 day | det |
| 41 | very | very | ADV | _ | 42 day | advmod |
| 42 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 eat | obl:unmarked |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 coming | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 48 coming | cc |
| 45 | Brother | brother | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 46 Fox | amod |
| 46 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 coming | nsubj |
| 47 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 48 coming | aux |
| 48 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 replied | advcl |
| 49 | with | with | ADP | _ | 50 me | case |
| 50 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 48 coming | obl |
| 51 | to | to | PART | _ | 52 share | mark |
| 52 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 48 coming | advcl |
| 53 | in | in | ADP | _ | 55 spoil | case |
| 54 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 55 spoil | det |
| 55 | spoil | spoil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 52 share | obl |
| 56 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 48 coming | punct |
| 57 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 48 coming | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Good morning | the Wolf | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent wolf=Topic | ||||
| 2 | go off in a quote | present · progressive | Good morning = morning | to valley | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | to-infinitive | Good morning = morning not said here | a appointment | with a fat Kyang | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent appointment=Theme | |||
| 4 | arrange in a quote | present · perfect | Good morning = morning | a fat Kyang | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | Good morning = morning not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 6 | eat in a quote | infinitive | Good morning = morning not said here | day | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 7 | come in a quote | present · progressive | Brother Fox | with Good morning = morning | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 8 | share in a quote | to-infinitive | Brother Fox not said here | the spoil | tree rules |
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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