Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 102
You must rap three times on this wall with the hilt of your sword, exclaiming with each rap, ‘Open, blank wall’; and as you pronounce these words for the third time the wall will fly asunder, and you will find yourself entering another subterranean chamber.
Who acts: You, wall, yourself · What happens: rap, exclaim, pronounce, fly, find, enter · To what, where: wall, Open blank wall, words, asunder, yourself, subterranean chamber
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 (You, wall, yourself), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 rap | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 rap | aux |
| 3 | rap | rap | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 5 times | nummod |
| 5 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 rap | obl:unmarked |
| 6 | on | on | ADP | _ | 8 wall | case |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 wall | det |
| 8 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rap | obl |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 11 hilt | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 hilt | det |
| 11 | hilt | hilt | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 rap | obl |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 sword | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 sword | nmod:poss |
| 14 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 hilt | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 exclaiming | punct |
| 16 | exclaiming | exclaim | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 rap | advcl |
| 17 | with | with | ADP | _ | 19 rap | case |
| 18 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 19 rap | det |
| 19 | rap | rap | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exclaiming | obl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 wall | punct |
| 21 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 wall | punct |
| 22 | Open | open | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wall | amod |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 Open | punct |
| 24 | blank | blank | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 wall | amod |
| 25 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 exclaiming | obl |
| 26 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 25 wall | punct |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 41 fly | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 fly | cc |
| 29 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 31 pronounce | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 pronounce | nsubj |
| 31 | pronounce | pronounce | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 41 fly | advcl |
| 32 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 33 words | det |
| 33 | words | word | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 pronounce | obj |
| 34 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 time | case |
| 35 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 time | det |
| 36 | third | third | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 37 time | amod |
| 37 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fly | obl |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 wall | det |
| 39 | wall | wall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fly | nsubj |
| 40 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 41 fly | aux |
| 41 | fly | fly | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 rap | parataxis |
| 42 | asunder | asunder | NOUN | Number=Sing | 41 fly | obj |
| 43 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 find | punct |
| 44 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 47 find | cc |
| 45 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 find | nsubj |
| 46 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 find | aux |
| 47 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 41 fly | advcl |
| 48 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 47 find | obj |
| 49 | entering | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 47 find | xcomp |
| 50 | another | another | DET | PronType=Ind | 52 chamber | det |
| 51 | subterranean | subterranean | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 52 chamber | amod |
| 52 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 entering | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 rap | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | rap | must | You | this wall | time | with the hilt of your sword | vn chit_chat-37.6 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with hilt=Co-Agent | ||
| 2 | exclaim speech: express | gerund | You not said here | Open blank wall | with each rap | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | pronounce | present | you | this words | vn dub-29.3.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 4 | fly | future | the wall | asunder | time | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location asunder=Theme | |||
| 5 | find | future | you | yourself | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent yourself=Attribute clause=Theme | ||||
| 6 | enter | gerund | yourself not said here | another subterranean chamber | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme chamber=Destination |
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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