Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 37
“There is a shepherd’s encampment over there where we can borrow a rope, and then all we have to do is to make a slip-knot in the rope, put it over the Kyang’s neck, and pull as hard as we can.”
Who acts: encampment, we, all · What happens: be, borrow, have, do, put, pull · To what, where: rope, knot, neck
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 (encampment, we, all), 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 | _ | 3 is | punct |
| 2 | There | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 3 is | expl |
| 3 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 borrow | advcl |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 5 shepherd | det |
| 5 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 encampment | nmod:poss |
| 6 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 5 shepherd | case |
| 7 | encampment | encampment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 is | nsubj |
| 8 | over | over | ADV | _ | 9 there | advmod |
| 9 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 is | advmod |
| 10 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 13 borrow | advmod |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 borrow | nsubj |
| 12 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 borrow | aux |
| 13 | borrow | borrow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 rope | det |
| 15 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 borrow | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 make | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 make | cc |
| 18 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 19 all | advmod |
| 19 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 make | nsubj:outer |
| 20 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 have | nsubj |
| 21 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 all | acl:relcl |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 have | xcomp |
| 24 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 make | cop |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 make | mark |
| 26 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 borrow | conj |
| 27 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 30 knot | det |
| 28 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 knot | compound |
| 29 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 28 slip | punct |
| 30 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 rope | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 rope | det |
| 33 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 make | obl |
| 34 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 put | punct |
| 35 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 borrow | conj |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 35 put | obj |
| 37 | over | over | ADP | _ | 41 neck | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 Kyang | det |
| 39 | Kyang | Kyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 neck | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 Kyang | case |
| 41 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 put | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 44 pull | punct |
| 43 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 44 pull | cc |
| 44 | pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 borrow | parataxis |
| 45 | as | as | ADV | _ | 46 hard | advmod |
| 46 | hard | hard | ADV | Degree=Pos | 44 pull | advmod |
| 47 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 49 can | mark |
| 48 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 49 can | nsubj |
| 49 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 46 hard | advcl |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 borrow | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 borrow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | be in a quote | present | a shepherd's encampment | there; there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | borrow in a quote | can | we | a rope | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | do in a quote | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | is in a quote | present | all | the rope | a slip knot obj; make property | tree rules | |||
| 6 | put in a quote | infinitive | we not said here | knot | the Kyang's neck | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme over neck=Destination | |||
| 7 | pull in a quote | present | hard property | vn slide-11.2 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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