Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 70
If you can produce, before six o’clock to-morrow evening, three of the pearls from my Treasury, you shall be pardoned and rewarded; but if you fail to do so, you shall all three be put to death.”
Who acts: you · What happens: produce, pardon, reward, fail, not do, put · To what, where: six o’clock, you
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), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 produce | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 produce | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 produce | aux |
| 4 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 o’clock | punct |
| 6 | before | before | ADP | _ | 8 o’clock | case |
| 7 | six | six | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 o’clock | nummod |
| 8 | o’clock | o'clock | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 produce | obj |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 evening | case |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 to | punct |
| 11 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 evening | compound |
| 12 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 o’clock | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 three | punct |
| 14 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 12 evening | appos |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 pearls | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 pearls | det |
| 17 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 14 three | nmod |
| 18 | from | from | ADP | _ | 20 Treasury | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 Treasury | nmod:poss |
| 20 | Treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 pearls | nmod |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 produce | punct |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 pardoned | nsubj |
| 23 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 pardoned | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 25 pardoned | aux:pass |
| 25 | pardoned | pardon | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 produce | ccomp |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 rewarded | cc |
| 27 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 25 pardoned | conj |
| 28 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 42 put | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 42 put | cc |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 fail | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 fail | nsubj |
| 32 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 put | advcl |
| 33 | to | to | PART | _ | 34 do | mark |
| 34 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 fail | xcomp |
| 35 | so | so | ADV | _ | 34 do | advmod |
| 36 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 fail | punct |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 put | nsubj |
| 38 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 42 put | aux |
| 39 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 40 three | det |
| 40 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 42 put | nsubj:pass |
| 41 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 42 put | aux:pass |
| 42 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 produce | parataxis |
| 43 | to | to | ADP | _ | 44 death | case |
| 44 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 put | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 produce | punct |
| 46 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 produce | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce | can | you | six o’clock | to morrow evening | tree rules | |||
| 2 | pardon | shall · passive | you | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Theme | |||||
| 3 | reward | participle | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent | ||||||
| 4 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 5 | not do | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | put | shall · passive | you | to death; all three nsubj:pass | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal |
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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