Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 26
Then you must go into the farmyard, where you will find many fowls, and in one corner you will see an earthenware jar full of soaked grain, and you must sprinkle this grain for the fowls to eat.
Who acts: you · What happens: go, find, see, soak, sprinkle, eat · To what, where: farmyard, many fowls, earthenware jar, one corner, grain
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 | Then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 go | advmod |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 go | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 go | aux |
| 4 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | into | into | ADP | _ | 7 farmyard | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 farmyard | det |
| 7 | farmyard | farmyard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 go | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 find | punct |
| 9 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 12 find | advmod |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 find | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 find | aux |
| 12 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | conj |
| 13 | many | many | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 fowls | amod |
| 14 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 find | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 see | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 see | cc |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 corner | case |
| 18 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 corner | nummod |
| 19 | corner | corner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obl |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 see | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 see | aux |
| 22 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 go | parataxis |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 jar | det |
| 24 | earthenware | earthenware | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 jar | compound |
| 25 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 see | obj |
| 26 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 jar | amod |
| 27 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 grain | case |
| 28 | soaked | soak | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 29 grain | amod |
| 29 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 full | obl |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 sprinkle | punct |
| 31 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 34 sprinkle | cc |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 sprinkle | nsubj |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 sprinkle | aux |
| 34 | sprinkle | sprinkle | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 see | conj |
| 35 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 36 grain | det |
| 36 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 sprinkle | obj |
| 37 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 fowls | case |
| 38 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 fowls | det |
| 39 | fowls | fowl | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 sprinkle | obl |
| 40 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 eat | mark |
| 41 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 39 fowls | acl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | must | you | the farmyard | then | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into farmyard=Initial_Location | |||
| 2 | find | future | you | many fowls | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fowl=Topic | ||||
| 3 | see | future | you | a earthenware jar | one corner | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer jar=Stimulus | |||
| 4 | soak | participle | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 5 | sprinkle | must | you | this grain | for the fowls | vn spray-9.7-1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent grain=Theme | |||
| 6 | eat | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V»: agent=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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