Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 48
“No,” said she, “it would be impossible for me to recognise you, as I was only a little child when you ran away.
Who acts: half, you · What happens: say, be, recognise, run away · To what, where: you, little child · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (half, you), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
| 2 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 said | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 No | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 said | nsubj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 impossible | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 impossible | punct |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 impossible | expl |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 impossible | aux |
| 11 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 12 impossible | cop |
| 12 | impossible | impossible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 said | ccomp |
| 13 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 16 recognise | mark |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 recognise | nsubj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 recognise | mark |
| 16 | recognise | recognise | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 impossible | csubj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 recognise | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 child | punct |
| 19 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 child | mark |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 child | nsubj |
| 21 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 25 child | cop |
| 22 | only | only | ADV | _ | 25 child | advmod |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 child | det |
| 24 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 child | amod |
| 25 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 recognise | obl |
| 26 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 28 ran | advmod |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 ran | nsubj |
| 28 | ran | run | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 16 recognise | advcl |
| 29 | away | away | ADV | _ | 28 ran | advmod |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | half | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | would | impossible property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | recognise in a quote | to-infinitive | half | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is a in a quote | past | half | a little child | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | run away in a quote | past | you | away property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «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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