Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 7
“Very well, if your hard-hearted brother insists on turning you out of the house, I will accompany you.
Who acts: hard hearted brother, woman · What happens: insist, turn, accompany · To what, where: you, house
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 (hard hearted brother, woman), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 accompany | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 accompany | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 11 insists | mark |
| 6 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 brother | nmod:poss |
| 7 | hard | hard | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brother | amod |
| 8 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 7 hard | punct |
| 9 | hearted | hearted | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 brother | amod |
| 10 | brother | brother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 insists | nsubj |
| 11 | insists | insist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 accompany | advcl |
| 12 | on | on | SCONJ | _ | 13 turning | mark |
| 13 | turning | turn | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 insists | advcl |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 turning | obj |
| 15 | out | out | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 16 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 house | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 house | det |
| 18 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 turning | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 insists | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 accompany | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 accompany | aux |
| 22 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 accompany | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 accompany | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | insist speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | your hard hearted brother | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | turn in a quote | gerund | your hard hearted brother not said here | you | the house | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent you=Theme out house=Trajectory | |||
| 3 | accompany in a quote | future | woman | you | well property | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme |
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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