Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 27
These two tasks I give you to-day, and you are on no account to enter my castle until I rejoin you in the evening.”
Who acts: two tasks, you, I · What happens: give, be, enter, rejoin · To what, where: you, account, castle
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 (two tasks, you, I), 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 | These | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 3 tasks | det |
| 2 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 3 tasks | nummod |
| 3 | tasks | task | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 give | nsubj |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 give | nsubj |
| 5 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 give | iobj |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 day | case |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 to | punct |
| 9 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 account | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 account | cc |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 account | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 account | cop |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 account | case |
| 15 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 16 account | det |
| 16 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 give | obl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 enter | mark |
| 18 | enter | enter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 account | acl |
| 19 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 castle | nmod:poss |
| 20 | castle | castle | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 enter | obj |
| 21 | until | until | SCONJ | _ | 23 rejoin | mark |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 rejoin | nsubj |
| 23 | rejoin | rejoin | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 give | advcl |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 rejoin | obj |
| 25 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 evening | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 evening | det |
| 27 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 rejoin | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | this two tasks | you | day | I nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||
| 2 | is | present | you | no account | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | enter | to-infinitive | this two tasks not said here | my castle | vn escape-51.1-1-2 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme castle=Destination | ||||
| 4 | rejoin | present | I | you | evening | vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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