Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 25
Don’t on any account come to grips with that beast in the water or he might do you an injury.
Who acts: you, Hare · What happens: not do, come, do · To what, where: account, grips, injury, 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, Hare), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Do | advmod |
| 3 | on | on | ADP | _ | 5 account | case |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 account | det |
| 5 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | obl |
| 6 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Do | parataxis |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 grips | case |
| 8 | grips | grip | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 come | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 beast | case |
| 10 | that | that | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 beast | det |
| 11 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 come | obl |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 water | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 water | det |
| 14 | water | water | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 beast | nmod |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 do | cc |
| 16 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 do | nsubj |
| 17 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 do | aux |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 come | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 do | iobj |
| 20 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 injury | det |
| 21 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | imperative | you not said here | any account | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | grips | with that beast in the water | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grip=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | do | might | Hare | a injury | you | 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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