Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 38
So they agreed that this should be done, and the Fox went off to the encampment near by and borrowed a rope from the shepherd, which he carried back to where the three other animals were standing.
Who acts: chops, Fox, three other animals · What happens: agree, do, go off, borrow, carry back, stand · To what, where: this, rope, shepherd
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 (chops, Fox, three other animals), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 agreed | advmod |
| 2 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 agreed | nsubj |
| 3 | agreed | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 done | mark |
| 5 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 done | nsubj:pass |
| 6 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 done | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 8 done | aux:pass |
| 8 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 agreed | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 went | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 went | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Fox | det |
| 12 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | nsubj |
| 13 | went | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 agreed | parataxis |
| 14 | off | off | ADP | _ | 13 went | compound:prt |
| 15 | to | to | ADP | _ | 17 encampment | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 encampment | det |
| 17 | encampment | encampment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 went | obl |
| 18 | near | near | ADV | _ | 17 encampment | advmod |
| 19 | by | by | ADP | _ | 18 near | fixed |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 borrowed | cc |
| 21 | borrowed | borrow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 went | conj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 rope | det |
| 23 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 borrowed | obj |
| 24 | from | from | ADP | _ | 26 shepherd | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 shepherd | det |
| 26 | shepherd | shepherd | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 borrowed | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 carried | punct |
| 28 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 30 carried | obj |
| 29 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 carried | nsubj |
| 30 | carried | carry | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 26 shepherd | acl:relcl |
| 31 | back | back | ADV | _ | 30 carried | advmod |
| 32 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 39 standing | mark |
| 33 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 39 standing | advmod |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 animals | det |
| 35 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 37 animals | nummod |
| 36 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 animals | amod |
| 37 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 39 standing | nsubj |
| 38 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 39 standing | aux |
| 39 | standing | stand | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 30 carried | advcl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 agreed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | agree speech: agree | past | chops = chop | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | do | should · passive | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | |||||
| 3 | go off | past | the Fox | to the encampment | vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | borrow | past | the Fox not said here | a rope | from the shepherd | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent rope=Theme from shepherd=Source | |||
| 5 | carry back | past | Fox | the shepherd | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Theme | ||||
| 6 | stand | past · progressive | the three other animals | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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