Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 35
“Very well, what you say is quite true; and if you will inform me what you wish me to do, I will undertake to carry out my share of the bargain.”
Who acts: you, King, my · What happens: say, be, inform, wish, do, undertake · To what, where: King, share, bargain · 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 (you, King, my), 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 | _ | 10 true | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 10 true | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 10 true | nsubj |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 say | nsubj |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 what | acl:relcl |
| 8 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 true | cop |
| 9 | quite | quite | ADV | _ | 10 true | advmod |
| 10 | true | true | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 11 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 27 undertake | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 undertake | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 inform | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 inform | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 inform | aux |
| 16 | inform | inform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 undertake | advcl |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 inform | iobj |
| 18 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 16 inform | obj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 wish | nsubj |
| 20 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 18 what | acl:relcl |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 wish | iobj |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 do | mark |
| 23 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 wish | xcomp |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 inform | punct |
| 25 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 undertake | nsubj |
| 26 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 27 undertake | aux |
| 27 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 true | parataxis |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 carry | mark |
| 29 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 27 undertake | xcomp |
| 30 | out | out | ADP | _ | 29 carry | compound:prt |
| 31 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 share | nmod:poss |
| 32 | share | share | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carry | obj |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 bargain | case |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 bargain | det |
| 35 | bargain | bargain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 share | nmod |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 true | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 true | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert in a quote | present | you | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | what nsubj; true, well property | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | inform speech: other a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | King | what obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | wish in a quote | present | you | King | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | do not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 6 | undertake in a quote | future | King | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | carry out in a quote | to-infinitive | King not said here | my share of the bargain | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent share=Eventuality | ||||
| 8 | share in a quote | my | the bargain | nom share «possession transitive»: poss=agent of=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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