Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 86
If you can now produce three pearls from my Treasury, you shall be rewarded in accordance with my promise; but if you are unable to do so, you shall all three be put to death.”
Who acts: you, my · What happens: produce, reward, be, do, put, promise · To what, where: three pearls, Treasury, you, accordance
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, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 produce | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 produce | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 produce | aux |
| 4 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 5 produce | advmod |
| 5 | produce | produce | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rewarded | advcl |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 7 pearls | nummod |
| 7 | pearls | pearl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 produce | obj |
| 8 | from | from | ADP | _ | 10 Treasury | case |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 Treasury | nmod:poss |
| 10 | Treasury | treasury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 produce | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 produce | punct |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 rewarded | nsubj:pass |
| 13 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 rewarded | aux |
| 14 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 15 rewarded | aux:pass |
| 15 | rewarded | reward | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 accordance | case |
| 17 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 rewarded | obl |
| 18 | with | with | ADP | _ | 20 promise | case |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 promise | nmod:poss |
| 20 | promise | promise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 accordance | nmod |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 36 put | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 36 put | cc |
| 23 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 26 unable | mark |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 unable | nsubj |
| 25 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 unable | cop |
| 26 | unable | unable | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 36 put | advcl |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 28 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 unable | xcomp |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 28 do | advmod |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 unable | punct |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 put | nsubj |
| 32 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 put | aux |
| 33 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 three | det |
| 34 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 36 put | nsubj:pass |
| 35 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 36 put | aux:pass |
| 36 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 15 rewarded | conj |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 death | case |
| 38 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 put | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 15 rewarded | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 rewarded | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | produce a condition, not said to happen | can | you | three pearls | my Treasury | now | vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent pearl=Result from treasury=Material | ||
| 2 | reward | shall · passive | you | accordance with my promise | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: subject=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is a condition, not said to happen | present | you | unable property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | put | shall · passive | you | to death; all three nsubj:pass | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | ||||
| 6 | 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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