Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 31
“Oh, Brother Wolf,” called out the Hare at this moment, “just wait one moment, for I have a suggestion to make to you.
Who acts: I · What happens: call out, wait, have, make · To what, where: suggestion, 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 (I), 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 called | punct |
| 2 | Oh | oh | INTJ | _ | 8 called | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 4 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wolf | compound |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 Oh | vocative |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Oh | punct |
| 8 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | out | out | ADP | _ | 8 called | compound:prt |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Hare | det |
| 11 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 called | xcomp |
| 12 | at | at | ADP | _ | 14 moment | case |
| 13 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 14 moment | det |
| 14 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 called | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 wait | punct |
| 16 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 wait | punct |
| 17 | just | just | ADV | _ | 18 wait | advmod |
| 18 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 called | conj |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 moment | nummod |
| 20 | moment | moment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 wait | obj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 have | punct |
| 22 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 24 have | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 have | nsubj |
| 24 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 wait | parataxis |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 suggestion | det |
| 26 | suggestion | suggestion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 have | obj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 make | mark |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 suggestion | acl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 you | case |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call out speech: assert | participle | moment | the Hare xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | infinitive | moment | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | I | a suggestion | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent suggestion=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | a suggestion not said here | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset |
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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