Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 8
It is my intention now to give myself up entirely to religious contemplation and no longer to molest you, so henceforth you are at liberty to run about as freely as you will without fear of me.
Who acts: leaf, you · What happens: be, give up, molest, run about, fear · To what, where: intention, myself, you, liberty, me
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Cat and the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (leaf, 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 intention | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 intention | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 4 intention | nmod:poss |
| 4 | intention | intention | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 4 intention | advmod |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 give | mark |
| 7 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 intention | acl |
| 8 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 7 give | iobj |
| 9 | up | up | ADP | _ | 7 give | compound:prt |
| 10 | entirely | entirely | ADV | _ | 13 contemplation | advmod |
| 11 | to | to | ADP | _ | 13 contemplation | case |
| 12 | religious | religious | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 contemplation | amod |
| 13 | contemplation | contemplation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 give | obl |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 18 molest | cc |
| 15 | no | no | ADV | _ | 16 longer | advmod |
| 16 | longer | long | ADV | Degree=Cmp | 18 molest | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 molest | mark |
| 18 | molest | molest | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 contemplation | conj |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 18 molest | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 26 liberty | punct |
| 21 | so | so | ADV | _ | 22 henceforth | advmod |
| 22 | henceforth | henceforth | ADV | _ | 26 liberty | advmod |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 26 liberty | nsubj |
| 24 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 26 liberty | cop |
| 25 | at | at | ADP | _ | 26 liberty | case |
| 26 | liberty | liberty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 intention | conj |
| 27 | to | to | PART | _ | 28 run | mark |
| 28 | run | run | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 liberty | acl |
| 29 | about | about | ADV | _ | 31 freely | advmod |
| 30 | as | as | ADV | _ | 31 freely | advmod |
| 31 | freely | freely | ADV | _ | 28 run | advmod |
| 32 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 34 will | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 will | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 freely | advcl |
| 35 | without | without | ADP | _ | 36 fear | case |
| 36 | fear | fear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 run | obl |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 38 me | case |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 fear | nmod |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 intention | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | leaf | my intention and liberty | now | my nmod:poss | tree rules | ||
| 2 | give up | to-infinitive | myself | to religious contemplation | vn contribute-13.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent myself=Theme to contemplation=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | molest | to-infinitive | you | long property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 4 | is | present | you | liberty | henceforth property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | run about | to-infinitive | leaf not said here | without fear of me; freely property | vn run-51.3.2-2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | fear | me | nom fear «feeling transitive»: of=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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