Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 62
Similarly, if he can make you turn your back to him he may be able to do you a mischief.
Who acts: face, you · What happens: make, turn, be, do · To what, where: you, back, face, mischief
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, 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 | Similarly | similarly | ADV | _ | 6 make | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Similarly | punct |
| 3 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 make | mark |
| 4 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 make | nsubj |
| 5 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 make | aux |
| 6 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 make | obj |
| 8 | turn | turn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 make | xcomp |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 back | nmod:poss |
| 10 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 turn | obj |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 12 him | case |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 turn | obl |
| 13 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 able | nsubj |
| 14 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 able | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | cop |
| 16 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 make | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 able | xcomp |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 do | iobj |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 mischief | det |
| 21 | mischief | mischief | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 do | obj |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 make | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | can | face | you | similarly property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | turn | infinitive | you not said here | your back | face | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.result»: agent=Agent back=Theme to he=Result | |||
| 3 | is | may | face | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | face not said here | a mischief | you | tree rules |
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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