Folk tales from Tibet, How He Dislodged the Spider., sentence 44
If you can tell me what I hold in my left hand I shall let you go free; but if you fail to do so, I shall immediately kill you with this sword.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, hold, let, go, fail, not do · To what, where: me, left hand, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 tell | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 tell | iobj |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 4 tell | obj |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 hold | nsubj |
| 8 | hold | hold | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | in | in | ADP | _ | 12 hand | case |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 12 hand | nmod:poss |
| 11 | left | left | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 12 hand | amod |
| 12 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 hold | obl |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 let | nsubj |
| 14 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 15 let | aux |
| 15 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 hand | acl:relcl |
| 16 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 15 let | obj |
| 17 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 let | xcomp |
| 18 | free | free | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 go | xcomp |
| 19 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 kill | punct |
| 20 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 kill | cc |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 fail | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 fail | nsubj |
| 23 | fail | fail | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 kill | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 do | mark |
| 25 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 fail | xcomp |
| 26 | so | so | ADV | _ | 25 do | advmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 fail | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 kill | nsubj |
| 29 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 kill | aux |
| 30 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 31 kill | advmod |
| 31 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 tell | conj |
| 32 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 kill | obj |
| 33 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 sword | case |
| 34 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 35 sword | det |
| 35 | sword | sword | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 kill | obl |
| 36 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 37 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | can | you | me | what obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient what=Topic | |||
| 2 | hold | present | I | my left hand | vn exist-47.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme in hand=Location | ||||
| 3 | let | shall | I | you | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | infinitive | you not said here | free property | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | fail a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 6 | not do | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 7 | kill | shall | I | you | with this sword; immediately property | vn murder-42.1-1 «NP V NP PP.instrument»: agent=Agent you=Patient with sword=Instrument |
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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