Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 66
So before rewarding you in accordance with my promise, I desire to put your skill to a further test.
Who acts: I, my · What happens: reward, desire, put, promise · To what, where: you, accordance, skill
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 (I, my), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 3 rewarding | advmod |
| 2 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 3 rewarding | mark |
| 3 | rewarding | reward | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 rewarding | obj |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 6 accordance | case |
| 6 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rewarding | obl |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 promise | case |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 promise | nmod:poss |
| 9 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rewarding | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 desire | punct |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 desire | nsubj |
| 12 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 rewarding | conj |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 put | mark |
| 14 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 desire | xcomp |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 skill | nmod:poss |
| 16 | skill | skill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obj |
| 17 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 test | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 20 test | det |
| 19 | further | further | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 20 test | amod |
| 20 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 put | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rewarding | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reward | gerund | you | accordance | with my promise | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with promise=Theme | |||
| 2 | desire | present | I | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | put not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | your skill | to a further test | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent skill=Goal | |||
| 4 | promise | my | nom promise «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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