Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 100
“The first part of your task is now accomplished; but as I told you before, it is still necessary to destroy the Ogre’s mascot, or he will come to life again in a short time.
Who acts: wife, Ogre, your · What happens: accomplish, tell, be, destroy, come, task · To what, where: first part, you, mascot, life · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (wife, Ogre, your), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 accomplished | punct |
| 2 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 part | det |
| 3 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 part | amod |
| 4 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 accomplished | nsubj:pass |
| 5 | of | of | ADP | _ | 7 task | case |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 task | nmod:poss |
| 7 | task | task | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 part | nmod |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 accomplished | aux:pass |
| 9 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 10 accomplished | advmod |
| 10 | accomplished | accomplish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 22 necessary | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 22 necessary | cc |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 15 told | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 told | nsubj |
| 15 | told | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 22 necessary | advcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 told | iobj |
| 17 | before | before | ADV | _ | 15 told | advmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 told | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 necessary | expl |
| 20 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 necessary | cop |
| 21 | still | still | ADV | _ | 22 necessary | advmod |
| 22 | necessary | necessary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 accomplished | conj |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 destroy | mark |
| 24 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 necessary | csubj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 Ogre | det |
| 26 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 28 mascot | nmod:poss |
| 27 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 26 Ogre | case |
| 28 | mascot | mascot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 destroy | obj |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 come | punct |
| 30 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 33 come | cc |
| 31 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 33 come | nsubj |
| 32 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 come | aux |
| 33 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 accomplished | conj |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 life | case |
| 35 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 come | obl |
| 36 | again | again | ADV | _ | 33 come | advmod |
| 37 | in | in | ADP | _ | 40 time | case |
| 38 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 time | det |
| 39 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 time | amod |
| 40 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 come | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 accomplished | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | accomplish in a quote | present · passive | the first part of your task | now | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | past | wife | you | before property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | still | necessary property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | destroy in a quote | to-infinitive | the Ogre's mascot | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mascot=Patient | |||||
| 5 | come in a quote | future | Ogre | life | again; time | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to life=Initial_Location | |||
| 6 | task in a quote | your | nom task «act 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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