Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 25
“Well, perhaps you can tell me what sort of an animal Man is, for I am just going out to find and kill one.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, be, go out, find, kill · To what, where: me, sort, one · 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 (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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 2 | Well | well | INTJ | _ | 7 tell | discourse |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Well | punct |
| 4 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 7 tell | advmod |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | nsubj |
| 6 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 tell | aux |
| 7 | tell | tell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 tell | iobj |
| 9 | what | what | DET | PronType=Int | 10 sort | det |
| 10 | sort | sort | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 tell | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 Man | case |
| 12 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 Man | det |
| 13 | animal | animal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 Man | compound |
| 14 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 sort | nmod |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 sort | cop |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 going | punct |
| 17 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 21 going | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 going | nsubj |
| 19 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 going | aux |
| 20 | just | just | ADV | _ | 21 going | advmod |
| 21 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 7 tell | ccomp |
| 22 | out | out | ADV | _ | 21 going | advmod |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 find | mark |
| 24 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 21 going | xcomp |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 kill | cc |
| 26 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 24 find | conj |
| 27 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 26 kill | obj |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert in a quote | can | you | me | perhaps property | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is a in a quote | present | what sort | of a animal Man | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | go out in a quote | present · progressive | I | out property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | find in a quote | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | kill in a quote | infinitive | I not said here | one | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent one=Theme |
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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