Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 33
Who may you be, pray?”
What happens: be
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: 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 | Who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 pray | nsubj |
| 2 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 pray | aux |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 pray | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 pray | cop |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 pray | punct |
| 6 | pray | pray | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 pray | punct |
| 8 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 pray | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | may | Who nsubj; you nsubj; pray property | 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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