Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 13
“I am very sorry for you, Sister Deer, but the fact is I am so famished that really I have no alternative but to eat you immediately.”
Who acts: Tiger · What happens: be, have, eat · To what, where: fact, alternative, you
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Tiger), 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 | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 sorry | cop |
| 4 | very | very | ADV | _ | 5 sorry | advmod |
| 5 | sorry | sorry | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 you | case |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 sorry | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Sister | punct |
| 9 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 7 you | conj |
| 10 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Sister | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 famished | punct |
| 12 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 famished | cc |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 fact | det |
| 14 | fact | fact | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 famished | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 famished | cop |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 famished | nsubj |
| 17 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 famished | aux:pass |
| 18 | so | so | ADV | _ | 19 famished | advmod |
| 19 | famished | famish | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 5 sorry | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 have | mark |
| 21 | really | really | ADV | _ | 23 have | advmod |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 famished | advcl |
| 24 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 25 alternative | det |
| 25 | alternative | alternative | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 have | obj |
| 26 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 28 eat | cc |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 eat | mark |
| 28 | eat | eat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 25 alternative | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 eat | obj |
| 30 | immediately | immediately | ADV | _ | 28 eat | advmod |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 sorry | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | Tiger | for you; sorry property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | is in a quote | present · passive | the fact | I nsubj; famish property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | have in a quote | present | Tiger | no alternative | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent alternative=Patient | ||||
| 4 | eat in a quote | to-infinitive | Tiger not said here | you | immediately property | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Patient |
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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