Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 76
Will you please precede me and show me the way?”
Who acts: you · What happens: precede, show · To what, where: me, way
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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 precede | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 precede | nsubj |
| 3 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 4 precede | discourse |
| 4 | precede | precede | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 precede | obj |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 show | cc |
| 7 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 precede | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 show | iobj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 way | det |
| 10 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 show | obj |
| 11 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 precede | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 precede | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | precede | future | you | me | vn contiguous_location-47.8 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme i=Co-Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | infinitive | you not said here | the way | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient way=Topic |
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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