Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 82

If they say there is, then I am to go free; but if they say there is not, then the Tiger is at liberty to kill and eat me.

Who acts: creatures, Tiger · What happens: say, be, go, not be, kill, eat · To what, where: liberty, me · 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 (creatures, Tiger), 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	If	if	SCONJ	_	3 say	mark
2	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	3 say	nsubj
3	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	5 is	expl
5	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	ccomp
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	9 am	punct
7	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 am	advmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 am	nsubj
9	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
10	to	to	PART	_	11 go	mark
11	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 am	xcomp
12	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	11 go	xcomp
13	;	;	PUNCT	_	17 say	punct
14	but	but	CCONJ	_	17 say	cc
15	if	if	SCONJ	_	17 say	mark
16	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 say	nsubj
17	say	say	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 say	parataxis
18	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	19 is	expl
19	is	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 say	ccomp
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	19 is	advmod
21	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 liberty	punct
22	then	then	ADV	PronType=Dem	27 liberty	advmod
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 Tiger	det
24	Tiger	Tiger	PROPN	Number=Sing	27 liberty	nsubj
25	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	27 liberty	cop
26	at	at	ADP	_	27 liberty	case
27	liberty	liberty	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 is	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 kill	mark
29	kill	kill	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 liberty	acl
30	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 eat	cc
31	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 kill	conj
32	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 eat	obj
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 say	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	say speech: assert	present	creatures = creature					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
2	be	present			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	go	to-infinitive	creatures = creature not said here				free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	say speech: assert a condition, not said to happen	present	creatures = creature					vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
5	not be	present			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
6	is	present	the Tiger		liberty	then		tree rules
7	kill	to-infinitive						vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
8	eat	infinitive		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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 82

The tree

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 82