Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 8
But I am afraid if I open the door and let you out you will kill and eat me.”
Who acts: I, you · What happens: be, open, let out, kill, eat · To what, where: door, you, me
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), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 afraid | cc |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 afraid | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 afraid | cop |
| 4 | afraid | afraid | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 open | mark |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 open | nsubj |
| 7 | open | open | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 kill | advcl |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 door | det |
| 9 | door | door | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 open | obj |
| 10 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 let | cc |
| 11 | let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 7 open | conj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 11 let | obj |
| 13 | out | out | ADP | _ | 11 let | compound:prt |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 kill | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 kill | aux |
| 16 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 afraid | ccomp |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 eat | cc |
| 18 | eat | eat | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 kill | conj |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 eat | obj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 afraid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | present | I | afraid property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | open a condition, not said to happen | present | I | the door | vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme | ||||
| 3 | let out | infinitive | I not said here | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 4 | kill | future | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | eat | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=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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