Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 42
So you, Brother Wolf, and you, Brother Fox, can put your heads through these smaller loops, and I will seize the loose end of the rope with my teeth, and when I give the signal we will all pull together.”
Who acts: you, I, we · What happens: fox, put, seize, give, pull together · To what, where: heads, smaller loops, loose end, signal
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 (you, I, we), 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 | _ | 14 put | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 put | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 Wolf | punct |
| 4 | Brother | Brother | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 Wolf | compound |
| 5 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 2 you | conj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fox | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 Fox | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 Fox | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fox | punct |
| 10 | Brother | brother | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Fox | amod |
| 11 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 you | appos |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 Fox | punct |
| 13 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 put | aux |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 heads | nmod:poss |
| 16 | heads | head | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | through | through | ADP | _ | 20 loops | case |
| 18 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 20 loops | det |
| 19 | smaller | small | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 20 loops | amod |
| 20 | loops | loop | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 put | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 seize | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 seize | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 seize | nsubj |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 seize | aux |
| 25 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 put | conj |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 end | det |
| 27 | loose | loose | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 end | amod |
| 28 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 seize | obj |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 rope | case |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 31 rope | det |
| 31 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 end | nmod |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 34 teeth | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 34 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 seize | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 45 pull | punct |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 45 pull | cc |
| 37 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 39 give | advmod |
| 38 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 give | nsubj |
| 39 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 45 pull | advcl |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 signal | det |
| 41 | signal | signal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 give | obj |
| 42 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 45 pull | nsubj |
| 43 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 45 pull | aux |
| 44 | all | all | ADV | _ | 45 pull | advmod |
| 45 | pull | pull | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 put | conj |
| 46 | together | together | ADV | _ | 45 pull | advmod |
| 47 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
| 48 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | fox | you | tree rules | ||||||
| 2 | put | can | you | your heads | this smaller loops | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent head=Theme through loop=Destination | |||
| 3 | seize | future | I | the loose end of the rope | with my teeth | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent end=Theme | |||
| 4 | give | present | I | the signal | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent signal=Theme | ||||
| 5 | pull together | future | we | all, together 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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