Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 43
You have twice made pretence to magical powers, which in reality you do not possess, and I am about to put you to a final test.
Who acts: you, I · What happens: make, not possess, put · To what, where: You, magical powers, reality
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, How He Dislodged the Spider.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, I), 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 made | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 made | aux |
| 3 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 made | advmod |
| 4 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | pretence | pretence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 made | xcomp |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 powers | case |
| 7 | magical | magical | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 powers | amod |
| 8 | powers | power | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 made | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 possess | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 16 possess | obj |
| 11 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 reality | case |
| 12 | reality | reality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 possess | obl |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 possess | nsubj |
| 14 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 possess | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 possess | advmod |
| 16 | possess | possess | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 powers | acl:relcl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 put | punct |
| 18 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 put | cc |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 put | nsubj |
| 20 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 put | aux |
| 21 | about | about | SCONJ | _ | 23 put | mark |
| 22 | to | to | PART | _ | 23 put | mark |
| 23 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 made | parataxis |
| 24 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 put | obj |
| 25 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 test | case |
| 26 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 28 test | det |
| 27 | final | final | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 test | amod |
| 28 | test | test | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 put | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect · passive | You | to magical powers; pretence xcomp; twice property | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: subject=Product | ||||
| 2 | not possess | present · do-support | you | magical powers | reality | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot which=Theme | |||
| 3 | put | present | I | you | to a final test | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Goal |
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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