Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 17
I will take him home and kill him, and he will make a nice dinner for father and mother and me.”
Who acts: I, Boy · What happens: take, kill, make · To what, where: Boy, nice dinner
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, Boy), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 take | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 take | aux |
| 3 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 take | obj |
| 5 | home | home | ADV | _ | 3 take | advmod |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 kill | cc |
| 7 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 8 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 kill | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 make | punct |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 make | cc |
| 11 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 make | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 make | aux |
| 13 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 take | conj |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 dinner | det |
| 15 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 dinner | amod |
| 16 | dinner | dinner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obj |
| 17 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 father | case |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 make | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 20 mother | cc |
| 20 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 father | conj |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 me | cc |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 father | conj |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take | future | I | Boy | home property | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument he=Destination | |||
| 2 | kill | infinitive | I not said here | Boy | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | make | future | Boy | a nice dinner | for father me and mother | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent dinner=Product for father=Beneficiary |
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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