Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 35
You must first follow the path, which will lead you to the top of a small hill, and when you arrive there a son will be born to you.
Who acts: You · What happens: follow, lead, arrive, bear · To what, where: path, you, top, son
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 follow | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 follow | aux |
| 3 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 4 follow | advmod |
| 4 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 path | det |
| 6 | path | path | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 follow | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 lead | punct |
| 8 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 10 lead | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 lead | aux |
| 10 | lead | lead | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 follow | conj |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 lead | obj |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 top | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 top | det |
| 14 | top | top | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 lead | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 18 hill | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 hill | det |
| 17 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 hill | amod |
| 18 | hill | hill | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 top | nmod |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 arrive | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 arrive | cc |
| 21 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 23 arrive | advmod |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 arrive | nsubj |
| 23 | arrive | arrive | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 follow | advcl |
| 24 | there | there | ADV | PronType=Dem | 23 arrive | advmod |
| 25 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 26 son | det |
| 26 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 born | nsubj:pass |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 born | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 born | aux:pass |
| 29 | born | bear | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 23 arrive | advcl |
| 30 | to | to | ADP | _ | 31 you | case |
| 31 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 born | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | must | You | the path | first property | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent path=Theme | |||
| 2 | lead | future | you | the top of a small hill | which nsubj | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent you=Theme to top=Destination | |||
| 3 | arrive | present | you | there | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 4 | bear | future · passive | a son | you | vn birth-28.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient |
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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