Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 9
But I can only do so on one condition, which is as follows: three children will be born to you, three to the horse and three to the dog.
Who acts: I · What happens: do, be, bear · To what, where: one condition, three children, you
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 do | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 do | aux |
| 4 | only | only | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 5 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 do | advmod |
| 7 | on | on | ADP | _ | 9 condition | case |
| 8 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 9 condition | nummod |
| 9 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 do | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 follows | punct |
| 11 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 14 follows | obj |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 follows | cop |
| 13 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 follows | mark |
| 14 | follows | follow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 condition | acl:relcl |
| 15 | : | : | PUNCT | _ | 20 born | punct |
| 16 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 17 children | nummod |
| 17 | children | child | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 born | nsubj:pass |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 born | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 born | aux:pass |
| 20 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 do | conj |
| 21 | to | to | ADP | _ | 22 you | case |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 born | obl |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 three | punct |
| 24 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 20 born | parataxis |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 27 horse | case |
| 26 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 horse | det |
| 27 | horse | horse | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 three | nmod |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 three | cc |
| 29 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 24 three | conj |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 32 dog | case |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 dog | det |
| 32 | dog | dog | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 three | nmod |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | I | one condition | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | present | one condition obj; follow property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | bear | future · passive | three children | you | three to the horse parataxis | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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