Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 35
I had expected you would bring us at least two or three.”
Who acts: you · What happens: expect, bring · To what, where: I, us
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Jackals and the Tiger.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | 3 expected | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 expected | aux |
| 3 | expected | expect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | nsubj |
| 5 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 bring | aux |
| 6 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 expected | xcomp |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 bring | obj |
| 8 | at | at | ADP | _ | 9 least | case |
| 9 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 10 two | nmod |
| 10 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 bring | obl |
| 11 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 12 three | cc |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 10 two | conj |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 expected | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 expected | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | expect | past · perfect · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | bring not said to happen | would | you | us | two at least obl | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument we=Destination |
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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