Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 10
Can you tell us, please, if there is any particular line in which you excel?”
Who acts: you, particular line · What happens: tell, be · To what, where: us · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, particular line), 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 tell | iobj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 6 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 tell | discourse |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 is | punct |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 10 is | mark |
| 9 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 10 is | expl |
| 10 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 tell | conj |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 line | det |
| 12 | particular | particular | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 line | amod |
| 13 | line | line | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 is | nsubj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 which | case |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 17 excel | nsubj |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 excel | nsubj |
| 17 | excel | excel | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 line | nmod |
| 18 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
| 19 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | you | us | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent we=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | be a condition, not said to happen | present | any particular line | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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