Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 43
If this should happen, you will meet with misfortune.”
Who acts: this, you · What happens: happen, meet
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Stone Lion.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (this, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 happen | mark |
| 2 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 happen | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 happen | aux |
| 4 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 meet | advcl |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 happen | punct |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 meet | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 meet | aux |
| 8 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 10 misfortune | case |
| 10 | misfortune | misfortune | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 meet | obl |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 meet | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 meet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | happen a condition, not said to happen | should | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | meet | future | you | with misfortune | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent with misfortune=Co-Agent |
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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