Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 38
And if we succeed in carrying out all we promise, we will ask you for the future to safeguard us against the two principal dangers which threaten the existence of the Mice who live in your country.”
Who acts: we, two principal dangers, Mice · What happens: succeed, carry out, promise, ask, safeguard, threaten · To what, where: you, us, existence, country
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 (we, two principal dangers, Mice), 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 | _ | 14 ask | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 succeed | mark |
| 3 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 succeed | nsubj |
| 4 | succeed | succeed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | advcl |
| 5 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 6 carrying | mark |
| 6 | carrying | carry | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 succeed | advcl |
| 7 | out | out | ADP | _ | 6 carrying | compound:prt |
| 8 | all | all | ADV | _ | 10 promise | advmod |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 promise | nsubj |
| 10 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 carrying | advcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 succeed | punct |
| 12 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 ask | aux |
| 14 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 ask | iobj |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 future | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 future | det |
| 18 | future | future | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 ask | obl |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 safeguard | mark |
| 20 | safeguard | safeguard | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 ask | xcomp |
| 21 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 safeguard | obj |
| 22 | against | against | ADP | _ | 26 dangers | case |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 dangers | det |
| 24 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 dangers | nummod |
| 25 | principal | principal | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 dangers | amod |
| 26 | dangers | danger | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 safeguard | obl |
| 27 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 28 threaten | nsubj |
| 28 | threaten | threaten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 dangers | acl:relcl |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 existence | det |
| 30 | existence | existence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 threaten | obj |
| 31 | of | of | ADP | _ | 33 Mice | case |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 Mice | det |
| 33 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 30 existence | nmod |
| 34 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 35 live | nsubj |
| 35 | live | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 33 Mice | acl:relcl |
| 36 | in | in | ADP | _ | 38 country | case |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 38 country | nmod:poss |
| 38 | country | country | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 live | obl |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 14 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | succeed a condition, not said to happen | present | we | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | carry out | gerund | we not said here | vn act-114 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | promise speech: promise | present | we | all property | vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | ask speech: ask | future | we | you | for the future | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 5 | safeguard not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | us | against the two principal dangers | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent we=Beneficiary against danger=Theme | |||
| 6 | threaten | present | the two principal dangers | the existence of the Mice | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus existence=Experiencer | ||||
| 7 | live | present | the Mice | your country | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in country=Location | ||||
| 8 | exist | the Mice | nom existence «state intransitive»: of=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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