Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 8
I will undertake to secure for you and your horse and dog the birth of offspring as you desire.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: undertake, secure, desire · To what, where: birth
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 undertake | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 undertake | aux |
| 3 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 secure | mark |
| 5 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 undertake | xcomp |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 secure | obl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 horse | cc |
| 9 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 horse | nmod:poss |
| 10 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 you | conj |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 dog | cc |
| 12 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 horse | conj |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 birth | det |
| 14 | birth | birth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 secure | obj |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 offspring | case |
| 16 | offspring | offspring | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 birth | nmod |
| 17 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 19 desire | mark |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 desire | nsubj |
| 19 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 secure | advcl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 undertake | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | undertake | future | I | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 2 | secure | to-infinitive | I not said here | the birth of offspring | for you | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Precondition birth=Theme for you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | desire | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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