Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 86
He will seat himself in his chair of state in his great hall of audience and will order you to kow-tow to him three times, and if you do so he will seize an opportunity whilst you are lying on your face before him to do you some injury.
Who acts: you, Ogre · What happens: order, do, seize, lie · To what, where: you, opportunity, face, injury, seat
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, Ogre), 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 | 3 seat | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 seat | aux |
| 3 | seat | seat | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 4 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 seat | nmod |
| 5 | in | in | ADP | _ | 7 chair | case |
| 6 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 chair | nmod:poss |
| 7 | chair | chair | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 seat | nmod |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 state | case |
| 9 | state | state | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 chair | nmod |
| 10 | in | in | ADP | _ | 13 hall | case |
| 11 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 hall | nmod:poss |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 hall | amod |
| 13 | hall | hall | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 state | nmod |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 audience | case |
| 15 | audience | audience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 hall | nmod |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 order | cc |
| 17 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 order | aux |
| 18 | order | order | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seat | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 order | obj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 23 tow | case |
| 21 | kow | kow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 tow | compound |
| 22 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 kow | punct |
| 23 | tow | tow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 order | obl |
| 24 | to | to | ADP | _ | 25 him | case |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 tow | nmod |
| 26 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 27 times | nummod |
| 27 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 25 him | obl:unmarked |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 seize | punct |
| 29 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 seize | cc |
| 30 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 32 do | mark |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 do | nsubj |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 seize | advcl |
| 33 | so | so | ADV | _ | 36 seize | advmod |
| 34 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 seize | nsubj |
| 35 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 36 seize | aux |
| 36 | seize | seize | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 seat | conj |
| 37 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 opportunity | det |
| 38 | opportunity | opportunity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 seize | obj |
| 39 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 42 lying | mark |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 42 lying | nsubj |
| 41 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 42 lying | aux |
| 42 | lying | lie | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 36 seize | advcl |
| 43 | on | on | ADP | _ | 45 face | case |
| 44 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 face | nmod:poss |
| 45 | face | face | NOUN | Number=Sing | 42 lying | obl |
| 46 | before | before | ADP | _ | 47 him | case |
| 47 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 42 lying | obl |
| 48 | to | to | PART | _ | 49 do | mark |
| 49 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 42 lying | advcl |
| 50 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 49 do | iobj |
| 51 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 52 injury | det |
| 52 | injury | injury | NOUN | Number=Sing | 49 do | obj |
| 53 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 seat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | order | future | you | to kow tow to Ogre | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | seize | future | Ogre | a opportunity | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opportunity=Theme | ||||
| 4 | lie | present · progressive | you | your face | before Ogre | vn assuming_position-50 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Agent on face=Location | |||
| 5 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | some injury | 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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