Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 52
“Pull, all of you,” called out the Hare, and so saying he let go of the end of the rope and the Kyang galloped off dragging the Wolf and the Fox after him.
Who acts: you, Hare, Kyang · What happens: pull, call out, say, let, go, gallop off · To what, where: all, Wolf · 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 (you, Hare, Kyang), 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 | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 2 | Pull | pull | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 all | punct |
| 4 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 2 Pull | obj |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 all | nmod |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
| 9 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 Pull | advcl |
| 10 | out | out | ADP | _ | 9 called | compound:prt |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Hare | det |
| 12 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 called | xcomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 saying | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 saying | cc |
| 15 | so | so | ADV | _ | 16 saying | advmod |
| 16 | saying | say | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 2 Pull | advcl |
| 17 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 let | nsubj |
| 18 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 saying | ccomp |
| 19 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 let | xcomp |
| 20 | of | of | ADP | _ | 22 end | case |
| 21 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 22 end | det |
| 22 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 go | obl |
| 23 | of | of | ADP | _ | 25 rope | case |
| 24 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 rope | det |
| 25 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 end | nmod |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 galloped | cc |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 Kyang | det |
| 28 | Kyang | Kyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 29 galloped | nsubj |
| 29 | galloped | gallop | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 let | conj |
| 30 | off | off | ADP | _ | 29 galloped | compound:prt |
| 31 | dragging | drag | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 29 galloped | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Wolf | det |
| 33 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 31 dragging | obj |
| 34 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 Fox | cc |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 36 Fox | det |
| 36 | Fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 Wolf | conj |
| 37 | after | after | ADP | _ | 38 him | case |
| 38 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 dragging | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 Pull | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | pull in a quote | imperative | you not said here | all of you | vn push-12-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent all=Theme | ||||
| 2 | call out speech: assert | participle | you not said here | the Hare xcomp | vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | say speech: assert | gerund | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | let | past | Hare | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | go | infinitive | Hare not said here | of the end of the rope | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme of end=Initial_Location | ||||
| 6 | gallop off | past | the Kyang | vn run-51.3.2-2 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 7 | drag | gerund | the Kyang not said here | the Wolf and the Fox | after Fox | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent wolf=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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