Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 38
Do you climb in through the window into the room where the old man’s body lies awaiting burial, and conceal yourself somewhere.
Who acts: you, body · What happens: climb, lie, await, conceal · To what, where: window, burial, yourself
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, body), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 climb | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 climb | nsubj |
| 3 | climb | climb | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | in | in | ADV | _ | 3 climb | advmod |
| 5 | through | through | ADP | _ | 7 window | case |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 window | det |
| 7 | window | window | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climb | obl |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 room | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 climb | obl |
| 11 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 17 lies | advmod |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 man | det |
| 13 | old | old | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 man | amod |
| 14 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 body | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 14 man | case |
| 16 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 lies | nsubj |
| 17 | lies | lie | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 room | advcl |
| 18 | awaiting | await | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 17 lies | xcomp |
| 19 | burial | burial | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 awaiting | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 conceal | punct |
| 21 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 conceal | cc |
| 22 | conceal | conceal | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 climb | conj |
| 23 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 conceal | obj |
| 24 | somewhere | somewhere | ADV | PronType=Ind | 22 conceal | advmod |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 climb | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | climb | present · do-support | you | the window | into the room | vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme through window=Initial_Location into room=Destination | |||
| 2 | lie | present | the old man's body | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | await | gerund | the old man's body not said here | burial | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | conceal | infinitive | you not said here | yourself | somewhere property | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Patient |
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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