Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 43
But be careful on no account to leave the room before morning, otherwise you are sure to be detected by the dogs which roam about the house by night.”
Who acts: you, dogs · What happens: be, leave, detect, roam · To what, where: account, room
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, dogs), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 3 careful | cc |
| 2 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | cop |
| 3 | careful | careful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 4 | on | on | ADP | _ | 6 account | case |
| 5 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 6 account | det |
| 6 | account | account | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 careful | obl |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 leave | mark |
| 8 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 careful | advcl |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 room | det |
| 10 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obj |
| 11 | before | before | ADP | _ | 12 morning | case |
| 12 | morning | morning | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 leave | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 14 | otherwise | otherwise | ADV | _ | 17 sure | advmod |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 sure | nsubj |
| 16 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 sure | cop |
| 17 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 careful | parataxis |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 detected | mark |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 detected | aux:pass |
| 20 | detected | detect | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 17 sure | ccomp |
| 21 | by | by | ADP | _ | 23 dogs | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 dogs | det |
| 23 | dogs | dog | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 detected | obl |
| 24 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 roam | nsubj |
| 25 | roam | roam | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 dogs | acl:relcl |
| 26 | about | about | ADP | _ | 28 house | case |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 house | det |
| 28 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 roam | obl |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 30 night | case |
| 30 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 roam | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 17 sure | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 careful | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | imperative | you not said here | no account | careful property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | you not said here | the room | morning | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent room=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | present | you | otherwise, sure property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | detect | to-infinitive · passive | the dogs | vn see-30.1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | roam | present | the dogs | night | about the house | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme about house=Trajectory |
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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