Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 51
This Tiger and I have a small matter which we wish to refer to you for an opinion.”
Who acts: Tiger, we · What happens: have, wish, refer · To what, where: small matter, 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, we), 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 | This | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 2 Tiger | det |
| 2 | Tiger | Tiger | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 have | nsubj |
| 3 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 4 I | cc |
| 4 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Tiger | conj |
| 5 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 matter | det |
| 7 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 matter | amod |
| 8 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 have | obj |
| 9 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 wish | obj |
| 10 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 wish | nsubj |
| 11 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 matter | acl:relcl |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 refer | mark |
| 13 | refer | refer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 wish | xcomp |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 you | case |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 refer | obl |
| 16 | for | for | ADP | _ | 18 opinion | case |
| 17 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 opinion | det |
| 18 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 refer | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have | present | this Tiger I | a small matter | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent matter=Patient | ||||
| 2 | wish | present | we | a small matter | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | refer not said to happen | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | for a opinion | vn relate-86.2-2 «NP V PP.co-theme»: agent=Theme to you=Co-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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