Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 43
And as to the Cats they are always the persecutors of Mice, and we ask you to banish them altogether from your kingdom.”
Who acts: Cats, we, persecutors · What happens: be, ask, banish · To what, where: persecutors, you, Cats, kingdom
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 (Cats, we, persecutors), 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 | _ | 5 Cats | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 5 Cats | cc |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 2 as | fixed |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 Cats | det |
| 5 | Cats | cat | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 persecutors | nsubj |
| 7 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 persecutors | cop |
| 8 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 10 persecutors | advmod |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 persecutors | det |
| 10 | persecutors | persecutor | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 Cats | parataxis |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 Mice | case |
| 12 | Mice | mouse | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 persecutors | nmod |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 ask | cc |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 persecutors | acl:relcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | obj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 banish | mark |
| 19 | banish | banish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ask | xcomp |
| 20 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 banish | obj |
| 21 | altogether | altogether | ADV | _ | 19 banish | advmod |
| 22 | from | from | ADP | _ | 24 kingdom | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 24 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 banish | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 persecutors | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 Cats | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | Cats = cat | the persecutors | of Mice; always property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | ask speech: ask | present | we | the persecutors not said here | you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 3 | banish not said to happen | to-infinitive | the persecutors not said here | Cats = cat | your kingdom | altogether property | vn banish-10.2 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent they=Theme from kingdom=Source |
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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