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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 59

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

Who acts: eyes, Tiger, thing · What happens: say, not be, be, go · 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 (eyes, 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

marknsubjexplccompadvmodpunctadvmoddetnsubjcopmarkparataxisobjpunctccmarknsubjadvclmarkexplccompdet:predetdetnsubjpunctnsubjparataxismarkxcompxcomppunctrootIfSCONJtheyPRONsayVERBtherePRONisVERBnotPART,PUNCTthenADVtheDETTigerPROPNisAUXtoPARTeatVERBmePRON;PUNCTbutCCONJifSCONJtheyPRONsayVERBthatSCONJtherePRONisVERBsuchDETaDETthingNOUN,PUNCTIPRONamAUXtoPARTgoVERBfreeADJ.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1IfifSCONJ_3 saymark
2theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs3 saynsubj
3saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Finrootroot
4theretherePRONPronType=Dem5 isexpl
5isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 sayccomp
6notnotPARTPolarity=Neg5 isadvmod
7,,PUNCT_13 eatpunct
8thenthenADVPronType=Dem13 eatadvmod
9thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art10 Tigerdet
10TigerTigerPROPNNumber=Sing13 eatnsubj
11isbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin13 eatcop
12totoPART_13 eatmark
13eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf5 isparataxis
14meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs13 eatobj
15;;PUNCT_28 ampunct
16butbutCCONJ_28 amcc
17ififSCONJ_19 saymark
18theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs19 saynsubj
19saysayVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin28 amadvcl
20thatthatSCONJ_22 ismark
21theretherePRONPronType=Dem22 isexpl
22isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin19 sayccomp
23suchsuchDETPronType=Ind25 thingdet:predet
24aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art25 thingdet
25thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing22 isnsubj
26,,PUNCT_19 saypunct
27IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs28 amnsubj
28ambeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin3 sayparataxis
29totoPART_30 gomark
30gogoVERBVerbForm=Inf28 amxcomp
31freefreeADJDegree=Pos30 goxcomp
32..PUNCT_3 saypunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1say speech: assertpresenteyes = eyevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2not bepresenttherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3ispresentthe Tigerthenme obj; eat propertytree rules
4say speech: assert a condition, not said to happenpresenteyes = eyevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5bepresentsuch thingtherevn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6goto-infinitiveeyes = eye not said herefree propertyvn 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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