Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 42
On this evidence I shall secure at least one-half of the property, which, of course, I shall share with you.
Who acts: I · What happens: secure, share · To what, where: evidence
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 (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 | On | on | ADP | _ | 3 evidence | case |
| 2 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 evidence | det |
| 3 | evidence | evidence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 secure | obl |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 secure | nsubj |
| 5 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 secure | aux |
| 6 | secure | secure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | at | at | ADP | _ | 8 least | case |
| 8 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 9 one | nmod |
| 9 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 11 half | nummod |
| 10 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 9 one | punct |
| 11 | half | half | NOUN | Number=Sing NumForm=Word NumType=Frac | 16 which | nsubj |
| 12 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 property | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 property | det |
| 14 | property | property | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 half | nmod |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 which | punct |
| 16 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 6 secure | advcl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 share | punct |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | ExtPos=ADV | 23 share | advmod |
| 19 | course | course | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 of | fixed |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 of | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 share | nsubj |
| 22 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 share | aux |
| 23 | share | share | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 secure | conj |
| 24 | with | with | ADP | _ | 25 you | case |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 share | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 secure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | secure | shall | I | this evidence | which one half of the property advcl:relcl | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent on evidence=Source | |||
| 2 | share | shall | I | with you | tree rules |
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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