Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 26
You are certainly much safer on the bank, and no doubt you will frighten him if you continue to growl and show your teeth.”
Who acts: You, doubt · What happens: be, frighten, continue, growl, show · To what, where: bank, Hare, teeth
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, doubt), 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 | 5 safer | nsubj |
| 2 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 safer | cop |
| 3 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 4 much | advmod |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 safer | advmod |
| 5 | safer | safe | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | root | root |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 bank | case |
| 7 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 bank | det |
| 8 | bank | bank | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 safer | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 frighten | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 frighten | cc |
| 11 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 12 doubt | det |
| 12 | doubt | doubt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 frighten | nsubj |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 frighten | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 frighten | aux |
| 15 | frighten | frighten | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 safer | parataxis |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 frighten | obj |
| 17 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 19 continue | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 continue | nsubj |
| 19 | continue | continue | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 frighten | advcl |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 growl | mark |
| 21 | growl | growl | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 continue | xcomp |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 show | cc |
| 23 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 growl | conj |
| 24 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 teeth | nmod:poss |
| 25 | teeth | tooth | NOUN | Number=Plur | 23 show | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 safer | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 safer | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | You | the bank | safe property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | frighten | future | no doubt | Hare | you nsubj | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 3 | continue a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn continue-55.3 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | growl | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | show | infinitive | you not said here | your teeth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent tooth=Recipient |
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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