Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 15

Think what a grief it would be to us all if you were to come to any harm.”

Who acts: you, grief · What happens: think, be, come · To what, where: harm

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, grief), 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	Think	think	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	what	what	PRON	PronType=Int	1 Think	obj
3	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	4 grief	det
4	grief	grief	NOUN	Number=Sing	2 what	nsubj
5	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 us	nsubj
6	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 us	aux
7	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	9 us	cop
8	to	to	ADP	_	9 us	case
9	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 grief	nmod
10	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	9 us	nmod:unmarked
11	if	if	SCONJ	_	15 come	mark
12	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	15 come	nsubj
13	were	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	15 come	aux
14	to	to	PART	_	15 come	mark
15	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 what	advcl
16	to	to	ADP	_	18 harm	case
17	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	18 harm	det
18	harm	harm	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 come	obl
19	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct
20	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Think	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	where	other	roles by
1	think speech: other	imperative	you not said here		what a grief obj	vn wish-62 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot what=Theme
2	is	would	grief		to us; all nmod:unmarked	tree rules
3	come a condition, not said to happen	past	you	any harm		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to harm=Initial_Location

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 15

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 15