Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 19
So he must return at once to his home and bring a Monkey along with him.
Who acts: physician · What happens: return, bring · To what, where: Monkey
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (physician), 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 | So | so | ADV | _ | 4 return | advmod |
| 2 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 return | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 return | aux |
| 4 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | at | at | ADP | _ | 6 once | case |
| 6 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 return | obl |
| 7 | to | to | ADP | _ | 9 home | case |
| 8 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 home | nmod:poss |
| 9 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 return | obl |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 bring | cc |
| 11 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 return | conj |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 Monkey | det |
| 13 | Monkey | monkey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 bring | obj |
| 14 | along | along | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 15 | with | with | ADP | _ | 16 him | case |
| 16 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 bring | obl |
| 17 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | must | physician | to physician's home result | vn convert-26.6.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Patient to home=Result | ||||
| 2 | bring | infinitive | physician not said here | a Monkey | along physician | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP ADVP»: agent=Instrument monkey=Destination |
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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