Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 29

“Dear me, Brother Tortoise,” said he, “I am very much grieved to hear of your wife’s illness, but if she is as bad as all that I do not think that one Monkey’s heart will be enough.

Who acts: Tortoise, friend, heart · What happens: say, grieve, hear, be, not think · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (Tortoise, friend, heart), 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	_	3 me	punct
2	Dear	dear	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 me	amod
3	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 said	ccomp
4	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 Tortoise	punct
5	Brother	Brother	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 Tortoise	compound
6	Tortoise	Tortoise	PROPN	Number=Sing	3 me	conj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	3 me	punct
9	said	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	9 said	nsubj
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 grieved	punct
12	“	"	PUNCT	_	17 grieved	punct
13	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	17 grieved	nsubj
14	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 grieved	aux
15	very	very	ADV	_	16 much	advmod
16	much	much	ADV	_	17 grieved	advmod
17	grieved	grieve	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	9 said	ccomp
18	to	to	PART	_	19 hear	mark
19	hear	hear	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 grieved	advcl
20	of	of	ADP	_	24 illness	case
21	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	22 wife	nmod:poss
22	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 illness	nmod:poss
23	’s	's	PART	_	22 wife	case
24	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 hear	obl
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 bad	punct
26	but	but	CCONJ	_	31 bad	cc
27	if	if	SCONJ	_	31 bad	mark
28	she	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	31 bad	nsubj
29	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 bad	cop
30	as	as	ADV	_	31 bad	advmod
31	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 grieved	parataxis
32	as	as	SCONJ	_	33 all	mark
33	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	31 bad	conj
34	that	that	SCONJ	_	38 think	mark
35	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 think	nsubj
36	do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	38 think	aux
37	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	38 think	advmod
38	think	think	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	33 all	advcl
39	that	that	SCONJ	_	46 enough	mark
40	one	one	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	41 Monkey	nummod
41	Monkey	monkey	NOUN	Number=Sing	43 heart	nmod:poss
42	’s	's	PART	_	41 Monkey	case
43	heart	heart	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 enough	nsubj
44	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 enough	aux
45	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	46 enough	cop
46	enough	enough	ADJ	Degree=Pos	38 think	ccomp
47	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 said	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	past	Tortoise	me ccomp	vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	grieve in a quote	present · passive	Tortoise		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
3	hear in a quote	to-infinitive	Tortoise not said here	of your wife's illness	vn see-30.1-1-1 «NP V PP.stimulus»: agent=Experiencer of illness=Stimulus
4	is a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	friend	bad property	tree rules
5	not think speech: other in a quote	present · do-support	Tortoise		vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is in a quote	future	one Monkey's heart	enough property	tree rules

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 29