Folk tales from Tibet, The Sheep, the Lamb, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 8
“Please don’t eat us now; but if you will wait till the autumn, when we shall both be very much fatter than we are now, you can eat us with much more benefit to yourself on our return journey.”
Who acts: you, we, our · What happens: not eat, wait, be, eat, journey · To what, where: us, return journey
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: who acts (you, we, our), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 2 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 5 eat | discourse |
| 3 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 5 eat | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 eat | advmod |
| 5 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 eat | obj |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 eat | advmod |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 wait | punct |
| 9 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 wait | cc |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 wait | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 wait | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 wait | aux |
| 13 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eat | conj |
| 14 | till | till | ADP | _ | 16 autumn | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 autumn | det |
| 16 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 wait | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 fatter | punct |
| 18 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 25 fatter | advmod |
| 19 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 fatter | nsubj |
| 20 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 fatter | aux |
| 21 | both | both | ADV | _ | 25 fatter | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 fatter | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 much | advmod |
| 24 | much | much | ADV | _ | 25 fatter | advmod |
| 25 | fatter | fat | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 13 wait | parataxis |
| 26 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 29 now | mark |
| 27 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 now | nsubj |
| 28 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 now | cop |
| 29 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 25 fatter | advcl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 eat | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 eat | nsubj |
| 32 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 eat | aux |
| 33 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 eat | conj |
| 34 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 eat | obj |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 38 benefit | case |
| 36 | much | much | ADV | _ | 37 more | advmod |
| 37 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 38 benefit | amod |
| 38 | benefit | benefit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eat | obl |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 yourself | case |
| 40 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 38 benefit | nmod |
| 41 | on | on | ADP | _ | 44 journey | case |
| 42 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 44 journey | nmod:poss |
| 43 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 44 journey | compound |
| 44 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 eat | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 eat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not eat in a quote | imperative · do-support | you not said here | us | now | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | |||
| 2 | wait a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | autumn | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is in a quote | shall | we | both, fat property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is in a quote | present | we | now property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | eat in a quote | can | you | us | our return journey | with more benefit to yourself | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||
| 6 | journey in a quote | our | nom journey «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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