Folk tales from Tibet, The Prince and the Ogre’s Castle., sentence 94
Being a Prince myself, I have never had to kow-tow to anybody; but if you will show me the proper manner in which to proceed I will do my best.”
Who acts: Prince, you, I · What happens: be, not have, show, proceed, do · To what, where: Prince, proper manner, me
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 (Prince, you, 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 | Being | be | AUX | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 3 Prince | cop |
| 2 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 3 Prince | det |
| 3 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 had | nsubj |
| 4 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 Prince | nmod |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 Prince | punct |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 had | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 had | aux |
| 8 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 9 had | advmod |
| 9 | had | have | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 tow | case |
| 11 | kow | kow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 tow | compound |
| 12 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 11 kow | punct |
| 13 | tow | tow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 had | obl |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 anybody | case |
| 15 | anybody | anybody | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 13 tow | nmod |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 21 show | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 21 show | cc |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 21 show | mark |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 show | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 show | aux |
| 21 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 had | parataxis |
| 22 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 show | iobj |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 25 manner | det |
| 24 | proper | proper | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 manner | amod |
| 25 | manner | manner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 show | obj |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 27 which | case |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 32 do | obj |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 proceed | mark |
| 29 | proceed | proceed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 which | advcl |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 do | nsubj |
| 31 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 do | aux |
| 32 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 manner | acl:relcl |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 best | nmod:poss |
| 34 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 32 do | obj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 show | punct |
| 36 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 had | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | gerund | a Prince | myself nmod | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | not have | present · perfect | a Prince | to kow tow to anybody; I nsubj | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | show a condition, not said to happen | future | you | the proper manner | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient manner=Topic | |||
| 4 | proceed | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | do | future | I | the proper manner | 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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