Folk tales from Tibet, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs., sentence 8
“Were I inclined to grant this fruit [12] to you, The gift were thine at once—to-day, to-morrow.
Who acts: woman · What happens: incline, grant, be · To what, where: gift, fruit, you, thine
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Some Verses From Tibetan Love-songs.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (woman), 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 inclined | punct |
| 2 | Were | were | INTJ | _ | 4 inclined | discourse |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 inclined | nsubj |
| 4 | inclined | incline | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 grant | mark |
| 6 | grant | grant | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 inclined | xcomp |
| 7 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 8 fruit | det |
| 8 | fruit | fruit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 grant | obj |
| 9 | [ | [ | PUNCT | _ | 10 12 | punct |
| 10 | 12 | 12 | NUM | NumForm=Digit NumType=Card | 8 fruit | appos |
| 11 | ] | ] | PUNCT | _ | 10 12 | punct |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 you | case |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 grant | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 gift | punct |
| 15 | The | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 gift | det |
| 16 | gift | gift | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inclined | obl |
| 17 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 thine | cop |
| 18 | thine | thy | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 16 gift | nmod |
| 19 | at | at | ADP | _ | 20 once | case |
| 20 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 4 inclined | obl |
| 21 | — | - | PUNCT | _ | 24 day | punct |
| 22 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 day | case |
| 23 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 22 to | punct |
| 24 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inclined | obl |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 morrow | punct |
| 26 | to | to | ADP | _ | 28 morrow | case |
| 27 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 26 to | punct |
| 28 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 inclined | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 inclined | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | incline in a quote | past | the woman = woman | the gift | day | to morrow | tree rules | ||
| 2 | grant in a quote | to-infinitive | the woman = woman not said here | this fruit | you | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent fruit=Theme to you=Goal | |||
| 3 | is a in a quote | past | thine | tree rules |
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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