Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 49
If you will take my advice you will leave Man alone, or it will be the worse for you in the end.”
Who acts: you, advice · What happens: take, leave, be · To what, where: advice, Man, end
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, advice), 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 take | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 take | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 take | aux |
| 4 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 leave | advcl |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 advice | nmod:poss |
| 6 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 take | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 leave | nsubj |
| 8 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 leave | aux |
| 9 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | Man | Man | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 leave | obj |
| 11 | alone | alone | ADV | _ | 9 leave | advmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 worse | punct |
| 13 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 18 worse | cc |
| 14 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 worse | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 worse | aux |
| 16 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 worse | cop |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 worse | det |
| 18 | worse | bad | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 9 leave | parataxis |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 you | case |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 worse | obl |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 end | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 end | det |
| 23 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 worse | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 leave | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 leave | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | take a condition, not said to happen | future | you | my advice | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent advice=Theme | ||||
| 2 | leave | future | you | Man | alone property | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent man=Theme | |||
| 3 | is | future | advice | in the end | for you; bad property | 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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