Folk tales from Tibet, The Hare and the Lions., sentence 7
But if you will allow me to do so I will show you where he lives, and if you can succeed in killing him he will make a very much better meal for you than a poor little beast like me.”
Who acts: you, I, Uncle · What happens: allow, do, show, live, succeed, kill · To what, where: me, you, Uncle, better meal · Speech: someone speaks here
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, I, Uncle), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 12 show | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 allow | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 allow | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 allow | aux |
| 5 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 show | advcl |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 allow | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 do | mark |
| 8 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 allow | xcomp |
| 9 | so | so | ADV | _ | 12 show | advmod |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 show | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 show | aux |
| 12 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 show | iobj |
| 14 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 lives | advmod |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 lives | nsubj |
| 16 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 show | ccomp |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 succeed | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 succeed | cc |
| 19 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 22 succeed | mark |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 succeed | nsubj |
| 21 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 succeed | aux |
| 22 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 show | conj |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 killing | mark |
| 24 | killing | kill | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 28 make | advcl |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 killing | obj |
| 26 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 make | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 succeed | parataxis |
| 29 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 meal | det |
| 30 | very | very | ADV | _ | 31 much | advmod |
| 31 | much | much | ADV | _ | 32 better | advmod |
| 32 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 meal | amod |
| 33 | meal | meal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 35 you | case |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obl |
| 36 | than | than | ADP | _ | 40 beast | case |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 beast | det |
| 38 | poor | poor | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 beast | amod |
| 39 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 beast | amod |
| 40 | beast | beast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obl |
| 41 | like | like | ADP | _ | 42 me | case |
| 42 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 12 show | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | allow a condition, not said to happen | future | you | me | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP S»: agent=Causer i=Beneficiary clause=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | do not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | show | future | I | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | live | present | Uncle | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 5 | succeed a condition, not said to happen | can | you | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | kill | gerund | Uncle not said here | Uncle | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 7 | make | future | Uncle | a better meal | for you; than a poor little beast; like me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent meal=Product for you=Beneficiary |
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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