Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 64
While the Calf is young and tender, I do all in my power to nourish and care for it.
Who acts: Calf, I · What happens: be, do, nourish, care · To what, where: power
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 (Calf, I), 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 | While | while | SCONJ | _ | 5 young | mark |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 Calf | det |
| 3 | Calf | Calf | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 young | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 young | cop |
| 5 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 10 do | advcl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 tender | cc |
| 7 | tender | tender | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 young | conj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 do | nsubj |
| 10 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 14 power | det |
| 12 | in | in | ADP | _ | 14 power | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 power | nmod:poss |
| 14 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 do | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 nourish | mark |
| 16 | nourish | nourish | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 power | acl |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 care | cc |
| 18 | care | care | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 nourish | conj |
| 19 | for | for | ADP | _ | 20 it | case |
| 20 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 care | obl |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | the Calf | young property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | be | the Calf not said here | tree rules | ||||||
| 3 | do | present | I | my power | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent power=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | nourish | to-infinitive | I not said here | my power not said here | vn subjugate-42.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 5 | care | infinitive | I not said here | for power | vn caring-75.2-2 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent for it=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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