Folk tales from Tibet, The Mouse’s Three Children., sentence 35
Brother Tiger,” said the Boy, “the King has said that if I do not immediately provide him with four full-grown Tigers to guard the four gates of his palace he will kill our mother and make me a slave.”
Who acts: Brother Tiger, King, I, four gates · What happens: say, not provide, grow, guard, kill, make · To what, where: Tiger, mother, slave, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Mouse’s Three Children.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Brother Tiger, King, I, four gates), 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 | Brother | brother | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 Tiger | amod |
| 2 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tiger | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Tiger | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Boy | det |
| 7 | Boy | Boy | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 said | punct |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 King | det |
| 11 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 said | nsubj |
| 12 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 said | aux |
| 13 | said | say | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 5 said | ccomp |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 provide | mark |
| 15 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 provide | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 provide | nsubj |
| 17 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 provide | aux |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 20 provide | advmod |
| 19 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 20 provide | advmod |
| 20 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 said | ccomp |
| 21 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 20 provide | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 27 Tigers | case |
| 23 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 Tigers | nummod |
| 24 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 grown | amod |
| 25 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 full | punct |
| 26 | grown | grow | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 27 Tigers | amod |
| 27 | Tigers | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Plur | 20 provide | obl |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 guard | mark |
| 29 | guard | guard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 provide | advcl |
| 30 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 gates | det |
| 31 | four | four | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 32 gates | nummod |
| 32 | gates | gate | NOUN | Number=Plur | 38 kill | nsubj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 palace | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 palace | nmod:poss |
| 35 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 kill | obl |
| 36 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 kill | nsubj |
| 37 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 kill | aux |
| 38 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 guard | ccomp |
| 39 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 40 mother | nmod:poss |
| 40 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 kill | obj |
| 41 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 42 make | cc |
| 42 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 38 kill | conj |
| 43 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 42 make | obj |
| 44 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 45 slave | det |
| 45 | slave | slave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 make | obj |
| 46 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 47 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | Brother Tiger | the Boy nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | present · perfect | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | not provide a condition, not said to happen | present · do-support | I | Tiger | with four grown Tigers; immediately property | vn fulfilling-13.4.1-2 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP.theme»: agent=Agent he=Recipient with tiger=Theme | |||
| 4 | grow | participle | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 5 | guard | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn defend-72.3 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Beneficiary | |||||
| 6 | kill | future | the four gates | our mother | of Tiger's palace; Tiger nsubj | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent mother=Theme of palace=Initial_Location | |||
| 7 | make | infinitive | the four gates not said here | a slave | me | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset i=Beneficiary slave=Product |
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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