Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 15
Will you be so kind as to hold the rope for a short time while I go and inform the owner where his sheep is?”
Who acts: you, I, sheep · What happens: be, hold, go, inform · To what, where: rope, owner
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I, sheep), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 kind | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 kind | nsubj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kind | cop |
| 4 | so | so | ADV | _ | 5 kind | advmod |
| 5 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 8 hold | mark |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 hold | mark |
| 8 | hold | hold | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 kind | xcomp |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 rope | det |
| 10 | rope | rope | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | obj |
| 11 | for | for | ADP | _ | 14 time | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 time | det |
| 13 | short | short | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 time | amod |
| 14 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | obl |
| 15 | while | while | SCONJ | _ | 17 go | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 go | nsubj |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 hold | advcl |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 inform | cc |
| 19 | inform | inform | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 go | conj |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 owner | det |
| 21 | owner | owner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 inform | obj |
| 22 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 25 is | advmod |
| 23 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 sheep | nmod:poss |
| 24 | sheep | sheep | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 is | nsubj |
| 25 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 owner | acl:relcl |
| 26 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | future | you | kind property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | hold | to-infinitive | you not said here | the rope | time | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent rope=Theme | |||
| 3 | go | present | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 4 | inform speech: other | present | I not said here | the owner | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent owner=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | be | present | Servant's sheep | 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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