Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 11
Show me at once where this creature lives, and I will show you how I shall deal with him.”
Who acts: you, creature, I · What happens: show, live, deal · To what, where: me, you
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Hare and the Lions.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, creature, I), 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 | Show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Show | iobj |
| 3 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 lives | case |
| 4 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 8 lives | advmod |
| 5 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 8 lives | advmod |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 7 creature | det |
| 7 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | nsubj |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Show | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 show | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 show | cc |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 show | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 show | aux |
| 13 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Show | parataxis |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 show | iobj |
| 15 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 18 deal | advmod |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 deal | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 deal | aux |
| 18 | deal | deal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 show | conj |
| 19 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 him | case |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 deal | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Show | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | live | present | this creature | once property | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | show | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 4 | deal | shall | I | with creature | vn cope-83 «NP V PP.theme»: agent=Agent with he=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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