Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 31
If you like, I can easily get several other Monkeys from amongst my friends to accompany us to your home.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: like, get, accompany · To what, where: several other Monkeys, us, home
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), 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 | _ | 3 like | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 like | nsubj |
| 3 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 like | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 get | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 get | aux |
| 7 | easily | easily | ADV | _ | 8 get | advmod |
| 8 | get | get | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | several | several | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Monkeys | amod |
| 10 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 Monkeys | amod |
| 11 | Monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obj |
| 12 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 friends | case |
| 13 | amongst | amongst | ADP | _ | 15 friends | case |
| 14 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 15 friends | nmod:poss |
| 15 | friends | friend | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 get | obl |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 17 accompany | mark |
| 17 | accompany | accompany | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 get | advcl |
| 18 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 accompany | obj |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 home | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 home | nmod:poss |
| 21 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 accompany | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 get | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | like a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 2 | get | can | I | several other Monkeys | from my friends; easily property | vn get-13.5.1-1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent monkey=Theme from friend=Source | |||
| 3 | accompany | to-infinitive | I not said here | us | your home | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent we=Theme to home=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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