Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 41

“Now,” said he, “this is the way we must proceed: we will put this large slip-knot over the Kyang’s neck, and as he is such a large heavy animal the only way to strangle him will be for us three to pull together at the other end of the rope.

Who acts: Hare, this, we, only way · What happens: say, be, proceed, put, knot, strangle · To what, where: way, neck, large heavy animal, Hare · 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, this, we, only way), 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	_	2 Now	punct
5	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 said	nsubj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
8	“	"	PUNCT	_	12 way	punct
9	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	12 way	nsubj
10	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	12 way	cop
11	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	12 way	det
12	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 said	ccomp
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 proceed	nsubj
14	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 proceed	aux
15	proceed	proceed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 way	acl:relcl
16	:	:	PUNCT	_	19 put	punct
17	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 put	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 put	aux
19	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 way	parataxis
20	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	24 knot	nsubj
21	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	24 knot	amod
22	slip	slip	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knot	compound
23	-	-	PUNCT	_	22 slip	punct
24	knot	knot	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
25	over	over	ADP	_	29 neck	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 Kyang	det
27	Kyang	Kyang	PROPN	Number=Sing	29 neck	nmod:poss
28	’s	's	PART	_	27 Kyang	case
29	neck	neck	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	obl
30	,	,	PUNCT	_	39 animal	punct
31	and	and	CCONJ	_	39 animal	cc
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	39 animal	mark
33	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	39 animal	nsubj
34	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	39 animal	cop
35	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	39 animal	det:predet
36	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 animal	det
37	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 animal	amod
38	heavy	heavy	ADJ	Degree=Pos	39 animal	amod
39	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 put	conj
40	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	42 way	det
41	only	only	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 way	amod
42	way	way	NOUN	Number=Sing	49 us	nsubj
43	to	to	PART	_	44 strangle	mark
44	strangle	strangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	42 way	acl
45	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	44 strangle	obj
46	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	49 us	aux
47	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	49 us	cop
48	for	for	ADP	_	49 us	case
49	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	39 animal	nmod
50	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	49 us	nmod:unmarked
51	to	to	PART	_	52 pull	mark
52	pull	pull	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 put	advcl
53	together	together	ADV	_	52 pull	advmod
54	at	at	ADP	_	57 end	case
55	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	57 end	det
56	other	other	ADJ	Degree=Pos	57 end	amod
57	end	end	NOUN	Number=Sing	52 pull	obl
58	of	of	ADP	_	60 rope	case
59	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	60 rope	det
60	rope	rope	NOUN	Number=Sing	57 end	nmod
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Hare			now		vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
2	is a in a quote	present	this	the way				tree rules
3	proceed in a quote	must	we	the way not said here				tree rules
4	put in a quote	future	we		the Kyang's neck			vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent over neck=Destination
5	knot in a quote		this					tree rules
6	is a in a quote	present	Hare	such large heavy animal				tree rules
7	strangle in a quote	to-infinitive	the only way not said here	Hare				vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
8	is in a quote	future	the only way				for us; three nmod:unmarked	tree rules
9	pull together in a quote	to-infinitive	we not said here			at the other end of the rope	together property	vn push-12-1 «NP V PP-Conative»: agent=Agent at end=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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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 41