Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 31
I warn you solemnly to leave him alone and not to try and kill him.
Who acts: I · What happens: warn, leave, not try, kill · To what, where: you, Bullock
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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 warn | nsubj |
| 2 | warn | warn | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 warn | obj |
| 4 | solemnly | solemnly | ADV | _ | 2 warn | advmod |
| 5 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 leave | mark |
| 6 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 warn | advcl |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 leave | obj |
| 8 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 6 leave | advmod |
| 9 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 try | cc |
| 10 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 try | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 try | mark |
| 12 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 leave | conj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 kill | cc |
| 14 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 try | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 kill | obj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 warn | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | warn speech: warn | present | I | you | solemnly property | vn advise-37.9-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | |||
| 2 | leave | to-infinitive | I not said here | Bullock | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | |||
| 3 | not try | to-infinitive | I not said here | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 4 | kill | infinitive | I not said here | Bullock | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=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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