Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Stone Lion., sentence 8
I cannot consent to remain any longer with such an unnatural and cruel son.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not consent, remain
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 (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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 consent | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 consent | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 consent | advmod |
| 4 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 remain | mark |
| 6 | remain | remain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 consent | xcomp |
| 7 | any | any | ADV | _ | 8 longer | advmod |
| 8 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 6 remain | advmod |
| 9 | with | with | ADP | _ | 15 son | case |
| 10 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 son | det:predet |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 son | det |
| 12 | unnatural | unnatural | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 son | amod |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 cruel | cc |
| 14 | cruel | cruel | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 unnatural | conj |
| 15 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 remain | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consent | punct |
| 17 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 consent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not consent | can | I | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | remain | to-infinitive | I not said here | with such unnatural son; long property | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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