Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 6
“Very well,” said the Wolf, “I will wait until then, on condition that you meet me on this very spot in six months’ time.”
Who acts: Wolf, you · What happens: say, wait, meet · To what, where: condition, spot · 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 (Wolf, you), 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 | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 6 said | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 Wolf | det |
| 8 | Wolf | Wolf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 wait | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wait | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 wait | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 wait | aux |
| 13 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 14 | until | until | ADP | _ | 15 then | case |
| 15 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 13 wait | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 condition | punct |
| 17 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 condition | case |
| 18 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wait | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 meet | obj |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 meet | nsubj |
| 21 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 condition | acl:relcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 meet | obj |
| 23 | on | on | ADP | _ | 26 spot | case |
| 24 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 26 spot | det |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 spot | advmod |
| 26 | spot | spot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meet | obl |
| 27 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 time | case |
| 28 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 29 months | nummod |
| 29 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 time | nmod:poss |
| 30 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 29 months | case |
| 31 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 meet | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 wait | punct |
| 33 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | the Wolf | well property | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | wait in a quote | future | the Wolf = wolf | condition | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme on condition=Location | ||||
| 3 | meet in a quote | present | you | condition | this spot | time | me obj | tree rules |
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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