Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Two Neighbours., sentence 27
Plant it in your garden and see what grows up.”
Who acts: you · What happens: plant, see, grow up · To what, where: grain, garden · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Two Neighbours.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (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 | Plant | plant | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Plant | obj |
| 3 | in | in | ADP | _ | 5 garden | case |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 garden | nmod:poss |
| 5 | garden | garden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Plant | obl |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 see | cc |
| 7 | see | see | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Plant | conj |
| 8 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 9 grows | nsubj |
| 9 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 see | ccomp |
| 10 | up | up | ADP | _ | 9 grows | compound:prt |
| 11 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Plant | punct |
| 12 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Plant | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | plant | imperative | you not said here | grain | your garden | vn put-9.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent it=Theme in garden=Destination | |||
| 2 | see | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V how S_INF»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 3 | grow up | present | what nsubj | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=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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