Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 53
In a few minutes they were both strangled, and the Kyang, shaking off the rope from his neck, proceeded to graze quietly on his usual pastures, and the Hare scampered off home, feeling that he had done a good day’s work.
Who acts: Kyang, good day · What happens: strangle, shake off, proceed, graze, scamper, feel · To what, where: end, rope, Hare, home, work
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 (Kyang, good day), 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 | In | in | ADP | _ | 4 minutes | case |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 4 minutes | det |
| 3 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 minutes | amod |
| 4 | minutes | minute | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 strangled | obl |
| 5 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 strangled | nsubj |
| 6 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 strangled | aux:pass |
| 7 | both | both | ADV | _ | 8 strangled | advmod |
| 8 | strangled | strangle | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 proceeded | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 proceeded | cc |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 Kyang | det |
| 12 | Kyang | Kyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 22 proceeded | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 shaking | punct |
| 14 | shaking | shake | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 12 Kyang | acl |
| 15 | off | off | ADP | _ | 17 rope | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 rope | det |
| 17 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 shaking | obl |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 neck | case |
| 19 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 neck | nmod:poss |
| 20 | neck | neck | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 rope | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 Kyang | punct |
| 22 | proceeded | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 strangled | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 graze | mark |
| 24 | graze | graze | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 proceeded | xcomp |
| 25 | quietly | quietly | ADV | _ | 24 graze | advmod |
| 26 | on | on | ADP | _ | 29 pastures | case |
| 27 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 pastures | nmod:poss |
| 28 | usual | usual | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 pastures | amod |
| 29 | pastures | pasture | NOUN | Number=Plur | 24 graze | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 scampered | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 scampered | cc |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Hare | det |
| 33 | Hare | Hare | PROPN | Number=Sing | 34 scampered | obl:unmarked |
| 34 | scampered | scamper | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 strangled | conj |
| 35 | off | off | ADP | _ | 36 home | case |
| 36 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 scampered | obl |
| 37 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 feeling | punct |
| 38 | feeling | feel | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 34 scampered | advcl |
| 39 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 42 done | mark |
| 40 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 done | nsubj |
| 41 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 42 done | aux |
| 42 | done | do | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 38 feeling | ccomp |
| 43 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 day | det |
| 44 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 45 day | amod |
| 45 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 work | nmod:poss |
| 46 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 45 day | case |
| 47 | work | work | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 done | obj |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 strangled | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | strangle | past · passive | end | minute | both property | vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||
| 2 | shake off | gerund | the Kyang not said here | the rope from Kyang's neck | vn shake-22.3-2 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent rope=Patient | ||||
| 3 | proceed | past | the Kyang | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | graze | to-infinitive | the Kyang not said here | on Kyang's usual pastures; quietly property | vn dine-39.5 «NP V PP.patient»: agent=Agent on pasture=Patient | ||||
| 5 | scamper | participle | the Hare | home | vn run-51.3.2 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme off home=Trajectory | ||||
| 6 | feel | gerund | vn conjecture-29.5-2 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||||
| 7 | do | past · perfect | Kyang | a good day's work | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent work=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | work | a good day | nom work «act intransitive»: poss=agent |
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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