Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 4
And if you will spare my life I will take you to where you can find a much bigger, fatter creature than me for your supper.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: spare, take, find · To what, where: life, you
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How the Hare Got His Split Lip.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 take | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 spare | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 spare | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 spare | aux |
| 5 | spare | spare | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | advcl |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 life | nmod:poss |
| 7 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 spare | obj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 take | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 take | aux |
| 10 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 take | obj |
| 12 | to | to | SCONJ | _ | 16 find | mark |
| 13 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 16 find | advmod |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 find | nsubj |
| 15 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 find | aux |
| 16 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 take | advcl |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 bigger | det |
| 18 | much | much | ADV | _ | 19 bigger | advmod |
| 19 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 16 find | xcomp |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 creature | punct |
| 21 | fatter | fat | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 22 creature | amod |
| 22 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bigger | obl |
| 23 | than | than | ADP | _ | 24 me | case |
| 24 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 creature | nmod |
| 25 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 supper | case |
| 26 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 supper | nmod:poss |
| 27 | supper | supper | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 creature | nmod |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 take | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | spare a condition, not said to happen | future | you | my life | vn bill-54.5 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent life=Asset | ||||
| 2 | take | future | I | you | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument you=Destination | ||||
| 3 | find | can | you | big property | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent |
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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