Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 28
“Well, Brother Kyang,” said he, “here I am according to agreement, ready to kill and eat you, and I am glad to see you look so plump and well.
Who acts: Brother · What happens: say, accord, kill, eat, be, see · To what, where: you · 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 (Brother), 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 | _ | 8 said | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 8 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 said | nsubj |
| 5 | Kyang | Kyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 Brother | flat |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 Brother | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Brother | punct |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 here | nsubj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 11 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 here | punct |
| 12 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 said | ccomp |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 according | nsubj |
| 14 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 according | aux |
| 15 | according | accord | VERB | ExtPos=ADP Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 17 agreement | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 according | fixed |
| 17 | agreement | agreement | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 ready | punct |
| 19 | ready | ready | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 agreement | amod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 kill | mark |
| 21 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 ready | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 eat | cc |
| 23 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 kill | conj |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 eat | obj |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 glad | punct |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 glad | cc |
| 27 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 glad | nsubj |
| 28 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 glad | cop |
| 29 | glad | glad | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 look | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 see | mark |
| 31 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 glad | xcomp |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 see | obj |
| 33 | look | look | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 said | ccomp |
| 34 | so | so | ADV | _ | 35 plump | advmod |
| 35 | plump | plump | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 33 look | xcomp |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 37 well | cc |
| 37 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 35 plump | conj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | Brother | accord agreement | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | accord in a quote | present · progressive | Brother | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | Brother not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | infinitive | Brother not said here | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient | ||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | Brother | glad property | tree rules | ||||
| 6 | see in a quote | to-infinitive | Brother not said here | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 7 | look in a quote | present | plump property | vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus |
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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