Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 39
“Now,” said the Hare, “leave it all to me; I will show you exactly how it is to be done.”
Who acts: Hare · What happens: say, leave, show, do · To what, where: rope, Hare, 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 (Hare), 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 | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 said | advmod |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Now | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Hare | det |
| 7 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 leave | punct |
| 10 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | obj |
| 12 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 it | det |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 me | case |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 leave | obl |
| 15 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 18 show | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 show | nsubj |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 show | aux |
| 18 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | advcl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 show | iobj |
| 20 | exactly | exactly | ADV | _ | 26 done | advmod |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 26 done | advmod |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 26 done | nsubj:pass |
| 23 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 done | aux:pass |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 done | mark |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 done | aux:pass |
| 26 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 18 show | ccomp |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Hare | now | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | infinitive | rope | the Hare = hare | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Theme to i=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | show in a quote | future | the Hare = hare | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | do in a quote | present · passive | rope | exactly property | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality |
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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