Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 65
I first give it my milk, and later on, as you see, I encourage it to browse upon the best of the herbage, whilst I gladly stint myself in order that it may have plenty of the best of everything.
Who acts: I, you, power · What happens: give, see, encourage, browse, stint, have · To what, where: power, best, myself, order, plenty
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 (I, you, power), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 give | nsubj |
| 2 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 3 give | advmod |
| 3 | give | give | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 give | obj |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 milk | nmod:poss |
| 6 | milk | milk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 give | obj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 on | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 on | cc |
| 9 | later | late | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 10 on | advmod |
| 10 | on | on | ADV | _ | 3 give | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 encourage | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 see | mark |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 see | nsubj |
| 14 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 encourage | advcl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 see | punct |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 encourage | nsubj |
| 17 | encourage | encourage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 give | conj |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 encourage | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 browse | mark |
| 20 | browse | browse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 encourage | xcomp |
| 21 | upon | upon | ADP | _ | 23 best | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 best | det |
| 23 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 20 browse | obj |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 herbage | case |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 herbage | det |
| 26 | herbage | herbage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 best | obl |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 stint | punct |
| 28 | whilst | whilst | SCONJ | _ | 31 stint | mark |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 stint | nsubj |
| 30 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 31 stint | advmod |
| 31 | stint | stint | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 browse | conj |
| 32 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 31 stint | obj |
| 33 | in | in | ADP | _ | 34 order | case |
| 34 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 stint | obl |
| 35 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 38 have | mark |
| 36 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 have | nsubj |
| 37 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 have | aux |
| 38 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 order | acl |
| 39 | plenty | plenty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 have | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 42 best | case |
| 41 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 42 best | det |
| 42 | best | good | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 39 plenty | appos |
| 43 | of | of | ADP | _ | 44 everything | case |
| 44 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 42 best | obl |
| 45 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | present | I | power | my milk obj; first property | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent it=Recipient milk=Theme | |||
| 2 | see | present | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | encourage | present | I | power | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP how S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 4 | browse not said to happen | to-infinitive | power not said here | the best of the herbage | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | stint | present | I | myself | order | gladly property | tree rules | ||
| 6 | have | may | power | plenty | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent plenty=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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