Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 18
If you decide that it was a fox, I agree to be sent adrift upon a log of wood on the great river which flows past my palace; but if you think that the animal was a tiger, then the Queen is to suffer this penalty.”
Who acts: you, decision, I, great river, animal, Queen · What happens: decide, be, agree, send, flow, think · To what, where: fox, great river, tiger · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, decision, I, great river), 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 decide | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 decide | nsubj |
| 3 | decide | decide | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 agree | advcl |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 8 fox | mark |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 fox | nsubj |
| 6 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 fox | cop |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 fox | det |
| 8 | fox | fox | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 decide | ccomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 decide | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 agree | nsubj |
| 11 | agree | agree | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 14 sent | mark |
| 13 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 sent | aux:pass |
| 14 | sent | send | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 agree | ccomp |
| 15 | adrift | adrift | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 sent | xcomp |
| 16 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 18 log | case |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 log | det |
| 18 | log | log | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 wood | case |
| 20 | wood | wood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 log | nmod |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 24 river | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 river | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 river | amod |
| 24 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 sent | obl |
| 25 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 flows | nsubj |
| 26 | flows | flow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 river | acl:relcl |
| 27 | past | past | ADP | _ | 29 palace | case |
| 28 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 palace | nmod:poss |
| 29 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 flows | obl |
| 30 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 34 think | punct |
| 31 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 34 think | cc |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 think | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 think | nsubj |
| 34 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 agree | parataxis |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 40 tiger | mark |
| 36 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 37 animal | det |
| 37 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 tiger | nsubj |
| 38 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 40 tiger | cop |
| 39 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 40 tiger | det |
| 40 | tiger | tiger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 think | ccomp |
| 41 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 47 suffer | punct |
| 42 | then | then | ADV | PronType=Dem | 47 suffer | advmod |
| 43 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 44 Queen | det |
| 44 | Queen | Queen | PROPN | Number=Sing | 47 suffer | nsubj |
| 45 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 suffer | cop |
| 46 | to | to | PART | _ | 47 suffer | mark |
| 47 | suffer | suffer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 40 tiger | conj |
| 48 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 49 penalty | det |
| 49 | penalty | penalty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 suffer | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 agree | punct |
| 51 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 11 agree | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | decide a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is a | past | decision | a fox | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | agree speech: agree | present | I | vn correspond-36.1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | send not said to happen | to-infinitive · passive | the great river | upon a log of wood; adrift property | vn confine-92-1 «NP V NP» | ||||
| 5 | flow | present | the great river | past my palace | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | think speech: other a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | is a | past | the animal | a tiger | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | is | present | the Queen | then | this penalty obj; suffer 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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