Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 34
“You must know,” said he, “that I am a magician, living in this prairie, and you must carefully follow the directions which I shall now give you.
Who acts: You, man · What happens: know, say, be, live, follow, give · To what, where: magician, prairie, directions, you · 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, man), 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 | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 2 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 know | nsubj |
| 3 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 know | aux |
| 4 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | ccomp |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 6 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 know | punct |
| 7 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 8 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 said | nsubj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 magician | punct |
| 10 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 15 magician | punct |
| 11 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 15 magician | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 magician | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 15 magician | cop |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 magician | det |
| 15 | magician | magician | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 said | ccomp |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 living | punct |
| 17 | living | live | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 said | advcl |
| 18 | in | in | ADP | _ | 20 prairie | case |
| 19 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 20 prairie | det |
| 20 | prairie | prairie | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 living | obl |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 follow | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 follow | cc |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 follow | nsubj |
| 24 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 follow | aux |
| 25 | carefully | carefully | ADV | _ | 26 follow | advmod |
| 26 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 said | parataxis |
| 27 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 28 directions | det |
| 28 | directions | direction | NOUN | Number=Plur | 26 follow | obj |
| 29 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 33 give | obj |
| 30 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 33 give | nsubj |
| 31 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 33 give | aux |
| 32 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 33 give | advmod |
| 33 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 28 directions | acl |
| 34 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 33 give | iobj |
| 35 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know in a quote | must | You | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | man | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | is a in a quote | present | man | a magician | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | live in a quote | gerund | man not said here | this prairie | vn lodge-46 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in prairie=Location | ||||
| 5 | follow in a quote | must | you | the directions | carefully property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent direction=Theme | |||
| 6 | give in a quote | shall | man | the directions | you | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient which=Theme |
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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