Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 36
“You are a nice sort of friend,” said he, “to ask me to pay a visit to your home in order to kill me and use my heart as medicine for your ugly wife.
Who acts: You, nice sort, sort · What happens: be, say, ask, pay, kill, use · To what, where: nice sort, visit, heart · 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 (You, nice sort, sort), 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 | _ | 6 sort | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 sort | nsubj |
| 3 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 sort | cop |
| 4 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 6 sort | det |
| 5 | nice | nice | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 6 sort | amod |
| 6 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 friend | case |
| 8 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 sort | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 sort | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 sort | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ask | mark |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 17 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 ask | iobj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 pay | mark |
| 19 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ask | xcomp |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 visit | det |
| 21 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pay | obj |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 home | case |
| 23 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 24 home | nmod:poss |
| 24 | home | home | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 pay | obl |
| 25 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 28 kill | mark |
| 26 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 in | fixed |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 kill | mark |
| 28 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 pay | advcl |
| 29 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 kill | obj |
| 30 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 use | cc |
| 31 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 ask | conj |
| 32 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 33 heart | nmod:poss |
| 33 | heart | heart | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 use | obj |
| 34 | as | as | ADP | _ | 35 medicine | case |
| 35 | medicine | medicine | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 use | obl |
| 36 | for | for | ADP | _ | 39 wife | case |
| 37 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 wife | nmod:poss |
| 38 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 wife | amod |
| 39 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 use | obl |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a in a quote | present | You | a nice sort | of friend | tree rules | |||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | a nice sort | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask in a quote | to-infinitive | sort | a nice sort = sort | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | pay not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | sort not said here | a visit | to your home | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent visit=Asset | |||
| 5 | kill in a quote | to-infinitive | sort not said here | a nice sort = sort | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 6 | use in a quote | infinitive | sort not said here | my heart | as medicine; for your ugly wife | vn spend_time-104 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent heart=Duration as medicine=Attribute |
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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