Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 99

“I can tell you this,” replied the shell, “that if you attempt to marry Prince Baki’s mother you will find yourself in a very unpleasant position.”

Who acts: shell, you · What happens: tell, reply, attempt, marry, find · To what, where: you, mother, yourself, unpleasant position · 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 (shell, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 tell	nsubj
3	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 tell	aux
4	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 replied	ccomp
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 tell	iobj
6	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	5 you	nmod:unmarked
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 tell	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 shell	det
11	shell	shell	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 replied	obj
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	26 find	punct
14	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 attempt	mark
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 attempt	mark
16	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	17 attempt	nsubj
17	attempt	attempt	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 find	advcl
18	to	to	PART	_	19 marry	mark
19	marry	marry	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 attempt	xcomp
20	Prince	Prince	PROPN	Number=Sing	21 Baki	nmod:desc
21	Baki	Baki	PROPN	Number=Sing	23 mother	nmod:poss
22	’s	's	PART	_	21 Baki	case
23	mother	mother	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 marry	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 find	nsubj
25	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 find	aux
26	find	find	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 replied	conj
27	yourself	yourself	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	26 find	obj
28	in	in	ADP	_	32 position	case
29	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	32 position	det
30	very	very	ADV	_	31 unpleasant	advmod
31	unpleasant	unpleasant	ADJ	Degree=Pos	32 position	amod
32	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 find	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct
34	”	"	PUNCT	_	9 replied	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	tell speech: assert in a quote	can	the shell = shell		you		vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient
2	reply speech: assert	past	the shell				vn say-37.7-1 «NP V S-Quote»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	attempt a condition, not said to happen, in a quote	present	you				vn try-61.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	marry not said to happen, in a quote	to-infinitive	you not said here	Baki Prince's mother			vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent mother=Patient
5	find in a quote	future	you	yourself		a unpleasant position	vn discover-84 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=Topic

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 99

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Room Bacha and Baki., sentence 99