Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 11
At the end of three years I will return here, and will claim from you one of each to follow me and serve me and to obey my orders in all matters.”
Who acts: I, my · What happens: return, claim, follow, serve, obey, order · To what, where: end, me, orders, matters
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 (I, 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 | At | at | ADP | _ | 3 end | case |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 end | det |
| 3 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 return | obl |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 6 years | case |
| 5 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 years | nummod |
| 6 | years | year | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 end | nmod |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 return | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 return | aux |
| 9 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 return | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 claim | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 claim | cc |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 claim | aux |
| 14 | claim | claim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 return | advcl |
| 15 | from | from | ADP | _ | 17 one | case |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 one | nsubj |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 14 claim | obl |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 each | case |
| 19 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 17 one | nmod |
| 20 | to | to | PART | _ | 21 follow | mark |
| 21 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 claim | advcl |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 follow | obj |
| 23 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 serve | cc |
| 24 | serve | serve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 follow | conj |
| 25 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 serve | obj |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 obey | cc |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 obey | mark |
| 28 | obey | obey | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 follow | conj |
| 29 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 orders | nmod:poss |
| 30 | orders | order | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 obey | obj |
| 31 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 matters | case |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 33 matters | det |
| 33 | matters | matter | NOUN | Number=Plur | 28 obey | obl |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 return | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | future | I | here | at the end of three years | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | claim speech: other | future | I not said here | from one you of each | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | follow | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 4 | serve | infinitive | I not said here | me | vn masquerade-29.6-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Attribute | ||||
| 5 | obey | to-infinitive | I not said here | my orders | all matters | vn abide_by-93.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent order=Theme | |||
| 6 | order | my | nom order «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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