Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 37

Do you call that a proper return for all my attention to you, and for showing you all over the jungle?

Who acts: you, my · What happens: call, show, attend · To what, where: that, you, jungle · 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, my), 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	Do	do	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 call	aux
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 call	nsubj
3	call	call	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	that	that	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	3 call	obj
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 return	det
6	proper	proper	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 return	amod
7	return	return	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 call	xcomp
8	for	for	ADP	_	11 attention	case
9	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	11 attention	det:predet
10	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 attention	nmod:poss
11	attention	attention	NOUN	Number=Sing	7 return	nmod
12	to	to	ADP	_	13 you	case
13	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 attention	nmod
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 showing	punct
15	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 showing	cc
16	for	for	SCONJ	_	17 showing	mark
17	showing	show	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 call	advcl
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 showing	iobj
19	all	all	ADV	_	22 jungle	advmod
20	over	over	ADP	_	22 jungle	case
21	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	22 jungle	det
22	jungle	jungle	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 showing	obl
23	?	?	PUNCT	_	3 call	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	call	present · do-support	you	that			a proper return for my attention to you xcomp	vn initiate_communication-37.4.2-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent that=Recipient
2	show	gerund	you not said here		you	the jungle		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
3	attend		my				to you	nom attention «cognition intransitive»: poss=agent to=obl

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 37