Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 33

If they say there is not, then the Tiger is to kill and eat me; but if they say that there is such a thing, then I am to go free.

Who acts: branches, Tiger, thing · What happens: say, not be, be, eat, go · To what, where: me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (branches, Tiger, thing), 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	_	3 say	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
6	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	5 is	advmod
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 kill	punct
8	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	13 kill	advmod
9	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	10 Tiger	det
10	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	13 kill	nsubj
11	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 kill	cop
12	to	to	PART	_	13 kill	mark
13	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 say	ccomp
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	15 eat	cc
15	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 kill	conj
16	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 eat	obj
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 say	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 say	cc
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 say	mark
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 say	nsubj
21	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	24 is	mark
23	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	24 is	expl
24	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 say	advcl
25	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	27 thing	det:predet
26	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	27 thing	det
27	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 is	nsubj
28	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 am	punct
29	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	31 am	advmod
30	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 am	nsubj
31	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 say	advcl
32	to	to	PART	_	33 go	mark
33	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	31 am	xcomp
34	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 go	xcomp
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	branches = branch					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	not be	present			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	is	present	the Tiger			then	kill property	tree rules
4	eat	infinitive	the Tiger not said here	me				vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	branches = branch					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
6	be	present	such thing		there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
7	go	to-infinitive	branches = branch not said here				free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 33

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 33