Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 61
He knows this very well, and will never in any circumstances turn his back upon a man.
Who acts: face, circumstances · What happens: know, turn · To what, where: this, back
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 (face, circumstances), 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 | He | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 knows | nsubj |
| 2 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 knows | obj |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 well | advmod |
| 5 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 2 knows | advmod |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 turn | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 turn | cc |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 turn | aux |
| 9 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 12 circumstances | advmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 circumstances | case |
| 11 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 12 circumstances | det |
| 12 | circumstances | circumstance | NOUN | Number=Plur | 13 turn | nsubj |
| 13 | turn | turn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 knows | conj |
| 14 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 back | nmod:poss |
| 15 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turn | obj |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 man | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 man | det |
| 18 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turn | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 knows | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | face | this | well property | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer this=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | turn | future | any circumstances | face's back | upon a man | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP.theme»: agent=Agent back=Theme |
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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