Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Tiger and the Man., sentence 59
Just come with me a little way and I will show you some things which only a Man knows, but which will be very useful for you to learn.”
Who acts: you, I, Man · What happens: come, show, know, be, learn · To what, where: little way, things, you
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, Man), 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 | Just | just | ADV | _ | 2 come | advmod |
| 2 | come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | with | with | ADP | _ | 4 me | case |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 come | obl |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 way | det |
| 6 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 way | amod |
| 7 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 come | obl:unmarked |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 show | cc |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 show | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 show | aux |
| 11 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 come | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 show | iobj |
| 13 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 14 things | det |
| 14 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 11 show | obj |
| 15 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 19 knows | obj |
| 16 | only | only | ADV | _ | 18 Man | advmod |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 Man | det |
| 18 | Man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 knows | nsubj |
| 19 | knows | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 things | acl:relcl |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 useful | punct |
| 21 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 26 useful | cc |
| 22 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 26 useful | nsubj |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 useful | aux |
| 24 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 useful | cop |
| 25 | very | very | ADV | _ | 26 useful | advmod |
| 26 | useful | useful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 come | parataxis |
| 27 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 30 learn | mark |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 30 learn | nsubj |
| 29 | to | to | PART | _ | 30 learn | mark |
| 30 | learn | learn | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 useful | advcl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | a little way | with me | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | show | future | I | some things | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=Topic | |||
| 3 | know | present | a Man | some things | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Experiencer which=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | is | future | which nsubj; useful property | tree rules | |||||
| 5 | learn | to-infinitive | you | vn learn-14-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent |
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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