Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 40
So he took the rope and made a large slip-knot at one end and two smaller slip-knots at the other end.
Who acts: Hare · What happens: take, make · To what, where: rope, large slip knot, one end
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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 took | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 took | nsubj |
| 3 | took | take | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 rope | det |
| 5 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 took | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 made | cc |
| 7 | made | make | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 took | conj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 12 knot | det |
| 9 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 knot | amod |
| 10 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 knot | compound |
| 11 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 10 slip | punct |
| 12 | knot | knot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obj |
| 13 | at | at | ADP | _ | 15 end | case |
| 14 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 15 end | nummod |
| 15 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 knots | cc |
| 17 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 21 knots | nummod |
| 18 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 21 knots | amod |
| 19 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 knots | compound |
| 20 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 19 slip | punct |
| 21 | knots | knot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 end | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 25 end | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 end | det |
| 24 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 end | amod |
| 25 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 made | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 took | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | past | Hare | the rope | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | ||||
| 2 | make | past | Hare not said here | a large slip knot | at one end and two smaller slip knots; at the other end | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset knot=Product |
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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