Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 12
“What, after all,” thought he to himself, “can be this creature Man that I should not slay him if I wish.
Who acts: I · What happens: think, be, not slay, wish · To what, where: neighbourhood, creature Man · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Tiger and the Man.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 2 | What | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 thought | obj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
| 4 | after | after | ADP | _ | 5 all | case |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 thought | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 8 | thought | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 thought | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 himself | case |
| 11 | himself | himself | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 8 thought | obl |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 Man | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 18 Man | punct |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 Man | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Man | cop |
| 16 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 Man | det |
| 17 | creature | creature | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 Man | compound |
| 18 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 thought | obl |
| 19 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 slay | obj |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 slay | nsubj |
| 21 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 slay | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 slay | advmod |
| 23 | slay | slay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 Man | acl:relcl |
| 24 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 slay | obj |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 wish | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 wish | nsubj |
| 27 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 slay | advcl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | past | neighbourhood | neighbourhood | after all | What obj | vn consider-29.9-2 «NP V NP ADJ»: agent=Agent what=Theme he=Attribute | ||
| 2 | is a in a quote | can | this creature Man | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | not slay in a quote | should | I | this creature Man | neighbourhood obj | tree rules | |||
| 4 | wish a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot |
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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