Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 119
You must now sprinkle the bodies with the liquid, giving one drop to each.”
Who acts: You · What happens: sprinkle, give · To what, where: bodies, one drop, each
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), 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 | 4 sprinkle | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 sprinkle | aux |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 sprinkle | advmod |
| 4 | sprinkle | sprinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 bodies | det |
| 6 | bodies | body | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 sprinkle | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 liquid | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 liquid | det |
| 9 | liquid | liquid | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 sprinkle | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 giving | punct |
| 11 | giving | give | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 sprinkle | advcl |
| 12 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 drop | nummod |
| 13 | drop | drop | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 giving | obj |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 each | case |
| 15 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 11 giving | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprinkle | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 sprinkle | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | sprinkle | must | You | the bodies | now | with the liquid | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.destination PP.theme»: agent=Agent body=Destination with liquid=Theme | ||
| 2 | give | gerund | You not said here | one drop | each | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent drop=Theme to each=Recipient |
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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