Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 69

As soon as it is big enough it will push me away from the places where I am grazing and take the best for itself, and will drive me away altogether from the pastures if it can.

Who acts: power, I · What happens: be, push away, graze, take, drive away · To what, where: me, places, best, pastures

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 (power, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	10 push	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	6 big	mark
4	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	6 big	nsubj
5	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 big	cop
6	big	big	ADJ	Degree=Pos	2 soon	advcl
7	enough	enough	ADV	_	6 big	advmod
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	10 push	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	10 push	aux
10	push	push	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
11	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	10 push	obj
12	away	away	ADV	_	10 push	advmod
13	from	from	ADP	_	15 places	case
14	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	15 places	det
15	places	place	NOUN	Number=Plur	10 push	obl
16	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	19 grazing	advmod
17	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 grazing	nsubj
18	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	19 grazing	aux
19	grazing	graze	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	15 places	acl:relcl
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 take	cc
21	take	take	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	10 push	conj
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 best	det
23	best	good	ADJ	Degree=Sup	21 take	obj
24	for	for	ADP	_	25 itself	case
25	itself	itself	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	21 take	obl
26	,	,	PUNCT	_	29 drive	punct
27	and	and	CCONJ	_	29 drive	cc
28	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 drive	aux
29	drive	drive	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	10 push	parataxis
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 drive	obj
31	away	away	ADV	_	29 drive	advmod
32	altogether	altogether	ADV	_	29 drive	advmod
33	from	from	ADP	_	35 pastures	case
34	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	35 pastures	det
35	pastures	pasture	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 drive	obl
36	if	if	SCONJ	_	38 can	mark
37	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	38 can	nsubj
38	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 drive	advcl
39	.	.	PUNCT	_	10 push	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	is	present	power			big, enough property	tree rules
2	push away	future	power	me	the places	away, soon property	vn funnel-9.3-1-1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: agent=Agent i=Theme from place=Trajectory
3	graze	present · progressive	I				vn dine-39.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	take	infinitive	power not said here	the best		for power	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent good=Theme for itself=Beneficiary
5	drive away	future		me	the pastures	altogether, away property	vn nonvehicle-51.4.2-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent i=Theme from pasture=Trajectory

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 69

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 69