Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tortoise and the Monkey., sentence 39
And as to the hearts of those other Monkeys that I promised to you—well, you can just wait till you find them for yourself.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: promise, wait, find · To what, where: other Monkeys, you, Monkeys
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 (I, you), 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 5 hearts | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 5 hearts | advmod |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 hearts | case |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 hearts | det |
| 5 | hearts | heart | NOUN | Number=Plur | root | root |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 Monkeys | case |
| 7 | those | that | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 9 Monkeys | det |
| 8 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 9 Monkeys | amod |
| 9 | Monkeys | monkey | NOUN | Number=Plur | 5 hearts | nmod |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 12 promised | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 promised | nsubj |
| 12 | promised | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 9 Monkeys | acl:relcl |
| 13 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 you | case |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 promised | obl |
| 15 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 21 wait | punct |
| 16 | well | well | INTJ | _ | 21 wait | discourse |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 well | punct |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 wait | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 wait | aux |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 wait | advmod |
| 21 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 hearts | parataxis |
| 22 | till | till | SCONJ | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 find | nsubj |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 wait | advcl |
| 25 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 find | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 yourself | case |
| 27 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 find | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 21 wait | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 21 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | promise speech: promise | past | I | that other Monkeys | you | vn promise-37.13 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | wait | can | you | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | find | present | you | Monkeys = monkey | for yourself | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent they=Theme for yourself=Beneficiary |
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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