Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 70
You must go up to this, and, kicking it three times with your right foot, you must exclaim at each kick, ‘Great Raven, open the door.’
Who acts: You · What happens: go up, kick, exclaim, open · To what, where: rock, Great Raven, kick, door
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 | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | up | up | ADV | _ | 3 go | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 this | case |
| 6 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 3 go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 exclaim | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 21 exclaim | cc |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 and | punct |
| 10 | kicking | kick | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 21 exclaim | advcl |
| 11 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 kicking | obj |
| 12 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 13 times | nummod |
| 13 | times | time | NOUN | Number=Plur | 10 kicking | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | with | with | ADP | _ | 17 foot | case |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 foot | nmod:poss |
| 16 | right | right | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 foot | amod |
| 17 | foot | foot | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 kicking | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 kicking | punct |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 exclaim | nsubj |
| 20 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 exclaim | aux |
| 21 | exclaim | exclaim | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 22 | at | at | ADP | _ | 24 kick | case |
| 23 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 24 kick | det |
| 24 | kick | kick | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 exclaim | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 Raven | punct |
| 26 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 28 Raven | punct |
| 27 | Great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 Raven | amod |
| 28 | Raven | Raven | PROPN | Number=Sing | 21 exclaim | obl |
| 29 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 open | punct |
| 30 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | parataxis |
| 31 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 32 door | det |
| 32 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 30 open | obj |
| 33 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
| 34 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go up | must | You | to this | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1-1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | kick | gerund | you not said here | rock | time | with your right foot | vn swat-18.2 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent it=Patient with foot=Instrument | ||
| 3 | exclaim speech: express | must | you | Great Raven | each kick | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent | |||
| 4 | open | infinitive | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=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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