--- title: The Hare of the Moon lives a thousand years, as you know, and when h… — The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient · tree and pragmatics description: The Hare of the Moon lives a thousand years, as you know, and when he is five hundred years old he changes his color from brown to white, and becomes, if possible, better tempered and nicer than he was before. Who acts: Hare, you. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Hare, 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg65965:23:44 # text = The Hare of the Moon lives a thousand years, as you know, and when he is five hundred years old he changes his color from brown to white, and becomes, if possible, better tempered and nicer than he was before. 1 The the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 2 det _ _ 2 Hare Hare PROPN NNP Number=Sing 6 nsubj _ _ 3 of of ADP IN _ 5 case _ _ 4 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 5 det _ _ 5 Moon Moon PROPN NNP Number=Sing 2 nmod _ _ 6 lives live VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 7 a a DET DT Definite=Ind|PronType=Art 8 det _ _ 8 thousand thousand NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 9 nummod _ _ 9 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 6 obl:unmarked _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 13 punct _ _ 11 as as SCONJ IN _ 13 mark _ _ 12 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 13 nsubj _ _ 13 know know VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=2|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 parataxis _ SpaceAfter=No 14 , , PUNCT , _ 24 punct _ _ 15 and and CCONJ CC _ 24 cc _ _ 16 when when SCONJ WRB _ 22 mark _ _ 17 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 22 nsubj _ _ 18 is be AUX VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 22 cop _ _ 19 five five NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 20 compound _ _ 20 hundred hundred NUM CD NumForm=Word|NumType=Card 21 nummod _ _ 21 years year NOUN NNS Number=Plur 22 obl:unmarked _ _ 22 old old ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 advcl _ _ 23 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 24 changes change VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 13 conj _ _ 25 his his PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 26 nmod:poss _ _ 26 color color NOUN NN Number=Sing 24 obj _ _ 27 from from ADP IN _ 28 case _ _ 28 brown brown ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 24 obl _ _ 29 to to ADP IN _ 30 case _ _ 30 white white ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 28 obl _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 33 punct _ _ 32 and and CCONJ CC _ 33 cc _ _ 33 becomes become VERB VBZ Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 6 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 34 , , PUNCT , _ 36 punct _ _ 35 if if SCONJ IN _ 36 mark _ _ 36 possible possible ADJ JJ Degree=Pos 33 xcomp _ SpaceAfter=No 37 , , PUNCT , _ 39 punct _ _ 38 better well ADV RBR Degree=Cmp 39 advmod _ _ 39 tempered temper VERB VBN Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part|Voice=Pass 36 parataxis _ _ 40 and and CCONJ CC _ 41 cc _ _ 41 nicer nice ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 39 conj _ _ 42 than than SCONJ IN _ 45 mark _ _ 43 he he PRON PRP Case=Nom|Gender=Masc|Number=Sing|Person=3|PronType=Prs 45 nsubj _ _ 44 was be AUX VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 45 cop _ _ 45 before before ADV RB _ 41 advcl _ SpaceAfter=No 46 . . PUNCT . _ 6 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **live** | present | the Hare of the Moon | | | | year | | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | | 2 | **know** | present | you | | | | | | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | | 3 | **is** | present | Hare | | | | year | old *property* | tree rules | | 4 | **change** | present | Hare | Hare's color | | brown | | | vn turn-26.6.1-1 «NP V NP.patient PP.material PP.result»: agent=Agent color=Patient from brown=Initial\_State | | 5 | **become** | present | the Hare of the Moon *not said here* | | | | | possible *property* | vn become-109.1-1-1 «NP V PP.attribute»: agent=Patient | | 6 | **temper** | participle | | | | | | well *property* | tree rules | | 7 | **is** | past | Hare | | | | | before *property* | 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:** «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order. - ← previous: [sentence 43](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/23/43/) - next →: [sentence 45](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/23/45/) - ↑ back to [Opening, part 23](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg65965/23/)