Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 25
If you will mount upon my back, I will swim with you wherever we want to go.”
Who acts: you, I, we · What happens: mount, swim, want, go · To what, where: back
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 (you, I, we), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 mount | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 mount | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 mount | aux |
| 4 | mount | mount | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 swim | advcl |
| 5 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 7 back | case |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 back | nmod:poss |
| 7 | back | back | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 mount | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 mount | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 swim | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 swim | aux |
| 11 | swim | swim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 swim | obl |
| 14 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 16 want | advmod |
| 15 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 want | nsubj |
| 16 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 swim | advcl |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 go | mark |
| 18 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 want | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 swim | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 swim | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | mount a condition, not said to happen | future | you | my back | vn put-9.1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent upon back=Destination | ||||
| 2 | swim | future | I | with you | vn swarm-47.5.1-1 «PP.location V PP.theme»: agent=Location with you=Theme | ||||
| 3 | want | present | we | wherever property | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | go not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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