Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 13
If you can lend us the grain we require, we will repay you faithfully with interest at the next harvest.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: lend, require, repay · To what, where: grain, us, you
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 lend | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 lend | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 lend | aux |
| 4 | lend | lend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 repay | advcl |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 lend | iobj |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 grain | det |
| 7 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 lend | obj |
| 8 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 require | nsubj |
| 9 | require | require | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 grain | acl:relcl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 lend | punct |
| 11 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 repay | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 repay | aux |
| 13 | repay | repay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 repay | obj |
| 15 | faithfully | faithfully | ADV | _ | 13 repay | advmod |
| 16 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 interest | case |
| 17 | interest | interest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 repay | obl |
| 18 | at | at | ADP | _ | 21 harvest | case |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 harvest | det |
| 20 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 harvest | amod |
| 21 | harvest | harvest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 interest | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 repay | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 repay | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | lend a condition, not said to happen | can | you | the grain | us | vn give-13.1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient grain=Theme | |||
| 2 | require | present | we | the grain not said here | vn require-103-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme grain=Precondition | ||||
| 3 | repay | future | we | you | with interest at the next harvest; faithfully property | vn equip-13.4.2-1 «NP V NP-Fulfilling PP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient with interest=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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