Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf., sentence 45
I beg you when I am dead to strip off my skin and to hand it over to my young ones as a mat for them to lie on, and in return for this service you can have my flesh for yourself.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: beg, be, strip off, hand over, lie on, have · To what, where: you, skin, young ones, flesh, return
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of How the Hare Made a Fool of the Wolf.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 beg | nsubj |
| 2 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 beg | obj |
| 4 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 7 dead | advmod |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 dead | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 dead | cop |
| 7 | dead | dead | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 beg | advcl |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 strip | mark |
| 9 | strip | strip | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 beg | advcl |
| 10 | off | off | ADP | _ | 9 strip | compound:prt |
| 11 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 skin | nmod:poss |
| 12 | skin | skin | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 strip | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 hand | cc |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 hand | mark |
| 15 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 strip | conj |
| 16 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 hand | obj |
| 17 | over | over | ADP | _ | 15 hand | compound:prt |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 ones | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 ones | nmod:poss |
| 20 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 ones | amod |
| 21 | ones | one | NOUN | Number=Plur | 15 hand | obl |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 mat | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 mat | det |
| 24 | mat | mat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 hand | obl |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 26 them | case |
| 26 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 mat | nmod |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 lie | mark |
| 28 | lie | lie | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 hand | advcl |
| 29 | on | on | ADP | _ | 28 lie | compound:prt |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 39 have | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 have | cc |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 return | case |
| 33 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obl |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 36 service | case |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 service | det |
| 36 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 return | nmod |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 have | nsubj |
| 38 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 39 have | aux |
| 39 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 beg | conj |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 flesh | nmod:poss |
| 41 | flesh | flesh | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 have | obj |
| 42 | for | for | ADP | _ | 43 yourself | case |
| 43 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 39 have | obl |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
| 45 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | beg speech: request | present | I | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | is | present | I | dead property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | strip off | to-infinitive | I not said here | my skin | vn dress-41.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent skin=Patient | ||||
| 4 | hand over | to-infinitive | I not said here | skin | my young ones | as a mat for chance | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme to one=Destination | ||
| 5 | lie on | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | have | can | you | my flesh | return for this service | for yourself | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent flesh=Patient |
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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