Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 79
But I can’t carry this heavy bag of gold all the way back with me.”
Who acts: I · What happens: not carry · To what, where: heavy bag
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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 carry | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | nsubj |
| 3 | ca | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 carry | aux |
| 4 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 carry | advmod |
| 5 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 6 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 bag | det |
| 7 | heavy | heavy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 bag | amod |
| 8 | bag | bag | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obj |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 gold | case |
| 10 | gold | gold | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 bag | nmod |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 way | det:predet |
| 12 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 13 way | det |
| 13 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 carry | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | back | back | ADV | _ | 13 way | advmod |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 carry | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
| 18 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 carry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not carry | can | I | this heavy bag of gold | with me; all way obl:unmarked | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bag=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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