Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 37
His name is Baki, and you must follow him wherever he leads.”
Who acts: name, you, boy · What happens: be, follow, lead, name · To what, where: Baki, boy
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 (name, you, boy), 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 | His | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 name | nmod:poss |
| 2 | name | name | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 Baki | nsubj |
| 3 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 Baki | cop |
| 4 | Baki | Baki | PROPN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 follow | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 follow | cc |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 follow | nsubj |
| 8 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 follow | aux |
| 9 | follow | follow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 Baki | parataxis |
| 10 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 follow | obj |
| 11 | wherever | wherever | ADV | PronType=Int | 13 leads | advmod |
| 12 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 leads | nsubj |
| 13 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 follow | advcl |
| 14 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 Baki | punct |
| 15 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 Baki | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | boy's name | Baki | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | follow | must | you | boy | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 3 | lead | present | boy | wherever property | vn result-27.2 «NP V PP»: agent=Precondition | ||||
| 4 | name | boy | nom name «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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