Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 16
“But,” said the King, “if I were to give you a barn full of grain how would you carry it away?”
Who acts: King, you · What happens: say, give, carry away · To what, where: barn, you, thread · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (King, 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 5 said | cc |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 But | punct |
| 5 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 King | det |
| 7 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 carry | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 24 carry | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 give | mark |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 give | nsubj |
| 12 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 14 give | aux |
| 13 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 give | mark |
| 14 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 carry | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 give | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 17 barn | det |
| 17 | barn | barn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 give | obj |
| 18 | full | full | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 barn | amod |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 grain | case |
| 20 | grain | grain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 full | obl |
| 21 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 24 carry | advmod |
| 22 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 carry | aux |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 carry | nsubj |
| 24 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 said | ccomp |
| 25 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 carry | obj |
| 26 | away | away | ADV | _ | 24 carry | advmod |
| 27 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 24 carry | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | the King | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | give a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | past | the King = king | a barn | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient barn=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry away in a quote | would | you | thread | away property | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=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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