Folk tales from Tibet, How the Hare Got His Split Lip., sentence 6
But if you don’t show me a much bigger animal than you are, I shall certainly be obliged to eat you.”
Who acts: you · What happens: show, be, oblige, eat · To what, where: bigger animal, me, I, 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), 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 | _ | 6 show | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 do | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 show | aux |
| 5 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 do | advmod |
| 6 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 show | iobj |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 animal | det |
| 9 | much | much | ADV | _ | 10 bigger | advmod |
| 10 | bigger | big | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 11 animal | amod |
| 11 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 show | obj |
| 12 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 14 are | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 are | nsubj |
| 14 | are | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 obliged | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 are | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 obliged | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 obliged | aux |
| 18 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 20 obliged | advmod |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 obliged | aux:pass |
| 20 | obliged | oblige | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 show | conj |
| 21 | to | to | PART | _ | 22 eat | mark |
| 22 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 obliged | advcl |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 eat | obj |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 show | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | show | present · do-support | a bigger animal | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient animal=Topic | ||||
| 2 | does | present | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | oblige | shall · passive | I | certainly property | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat | to-infinitive | you | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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