Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 55
It is now near the time for the Ogre’s return, and if he finds you here he will certainly kill you without the least hesitation, so you must hide now before he returns.”
Who acts: matter, Prince, you, Ogre · What happens: be, find, kill, hide, return · To what, where: you
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 (matter, Prince, you, Ogre), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 time | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 time | cop |
| 3 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 time | advmod |
| 4 | near | near | ADP | _ | 6 time | case |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 time | det |
| 6 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 7 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 return | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 Ogre | det |
| 9 | Ogre | Ogre | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 return | nmod:poss |
| 10 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 9 Ogre | case |
| 11 | return | return | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 time | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 kill | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 kill | cc |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 finds | mark |
| 15 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 finds | nsubj |
| 16 | finds | find | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 kill | advcl |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 finds | obj |
| 18 | here | here | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 finds | advmod |
| 19 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 kill | aux |
| 21 | certainly | certainly | ADV | _ | 22 kill | advmod |
| 22 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 kill | obj |
| 24 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 hesitation | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 27 hesitation | det |
| 26 | least | least | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 27 hesitation | amod |
| 27 | hesitation | hesitation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 kill | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 32 hide | punct |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 32 hide | advmod |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 hide | nsubj |
| 31 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 32 hide | aux |
| 32 | hide | hide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 time | parataxis |
| 33 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 32 hide | advmod |
| 34 | before | before | SCONJ | _ | 36 returns | mark |
| 35 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 36 returns | nsubj |
| 36 | returns | return | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 32 hide | advcl |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 32 hide | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 time | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | matter | near the time; now | for the Ogre's return | tree rules | |||
| 2 | find a condition, not said to happen | present | Prince | you | here | vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Topic | |||
| 3 | kill | future | Prince | you | without the least hesitation; certainly property | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 4 | hide | must | you | now | vn concealment-16-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | return | present | Prince | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | return | the Ogre | nom return «communication intransitive»: 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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