Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 14
You have no idea what a big, strong creature this is; you must on no account allow yourself to be injured by fighting with him.
Who acts: You, this · What happens: have, be, allow, injure, fight · To what, where: idea, big strong creature, yourself, account
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, this), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 have | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 4 idea | det |
| 4 | idea | idea | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 have | obj |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 idea | appos |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 creature | det |
| 7 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 big | punct |
| 9 | strong | strong | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 creature | amod |
| 10 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 what | nsubj |
| 11 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 is | nsubj |
| 12 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 creature | acl:relcl |
| 13 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 19 allow | punct |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 allow | nsubj |
| 15 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 allow | aux |
| 16 | on | on | ADP | _ | 18 account | case |
| 17 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 18 account | det |
| 18 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 allow | obl |
| 19 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 have | parataxis |
| 20 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 allow | iobj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 injured | mark |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 injured | aux:pass |
| 23 | injured | injure | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 allow | advcl |
| 24 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 25 fighting | mark |
| 25 | fighting | fight | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 23 injured | advcl |
| 26 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 him | case |
| 27 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 fighting | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | You | no idea | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent idea=Patient | ||||
| 2 | be | present | this | a big strong creature not said here | vn representation-110.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot creature=Theme | ||||
| 3 | allow | must | you | yourself | no account | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Beneficiary | |||
| 4 | injure | to-infinitive · passive | you not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | fight | gerund | you not said here | with creature | vn battle-36.4-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with he=Co-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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