Folk tales from Tibet, The Jackals and the Tiger., sentence 9
“You and the children can now go to sleep; I shall go on to the roof of the den and keep a look-out for the Tiger.
Who acts: You, Tiger · What happens: go, go on, keep · To what, where: sleep, look out
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, Tiger), 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 | _ | 8 go | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 go | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 children | cc |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 children | det |
| 5 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 You | conj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 go | aux |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 8 go | advmod |
| 8 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 sleep | case |
| 10 | sleep | sleep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 go | obl |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 go | punct |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 go | nsubj |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 go | aux |
| 14 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 go | conj |
| 15 | on | on | ADV | _ | 14 go | advmod |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 roof | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 roof | det |
| 18 | roof | roof | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 go | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 den | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 den | det |
| 21 | den | den | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 roof | nmod |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 keep | cc |
| 23 | keep | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 go | conj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 27 out | det |
| 25 | look | look | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 out | compound |
| 26 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 27 out | punct |
| 27 | out | out | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 keep | obj |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 Tiger | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 Tiger | det |
| 30 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 27 out | nmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go in a quote | can | You | sleep | now | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to sleep=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | go on in a quote | shall | Tiger | to the roof of the den | vn function-105.2.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | keep in a quote | infinitive | Tiger not said here | a look out | for the Tiger | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent out=Theme |
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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