Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Cat and the Mice., sentence 9
All I ask of you is that twice every day you should all file past me in procession and each one make an obeisance as you pass me by, as a token of your gratitude to me for my kindness.”
Who acts: All, you, one · What happens: ask, be, make, pass · To what, where: procession, obeisance, 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 (All, you, one), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | of | of | ADP | _ | 5 you | case |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obl |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 14 file | cop |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 14 file | mark |
| 8 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 10 day | advmod |
| 9 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 10 day | det |
| 10 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 file | obl:unmarked |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 file | nsubj |
| 12 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 file | aux |
| 13 | all | all | ADV | _ | 14 file | advmod |
| 14 | file | file | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | xcomp |
| 15 | past | past | ADP | _ | 16 me | case |
| 16 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 file | obl |
| 17 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 procession | case |
| 18 | procession | procession | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 file | obl |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 make | cc |
| 20 | each | each | DET | PronType=Tot | 21 one | det |
| 21 | one | one | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | nsubj |
| 22 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | conj |
| 23 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 obeisance | det |
| 24 | obeisance | obeisance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 make | obj |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 pass | mark |
| 26 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 pass | nsubj |
| 27 | pass | pass | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 make | advcl |
| 28 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 pass | obj |
| 29 | by | by | ADP | _ | 33 token | case |
| 30 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 by | punct |
| 31 | as | as | ADP | _ | 33 token | case |
| 32 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 token | det |
| 33 | token | token | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pass | obl |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 36 gratitude | case |
| 35 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 36 gratitude | nmod:poss |
| 36 | gratitude | gratitude | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 token | nmod |
| 37 | to | to | ADP | _ | 38 me | case |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 36 gratitude | nmod |
| 39 | for | for | ADP | _ | 41 kindness | case |
| 40 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 41 kindness | nmod:poss |
| 41 | kindness | kindness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 pass | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | All | of you; I nsubj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent of you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | is not said to happen | should · present | you | procession | day | past me; all, file property | tree rules | ||
| 3 | make | infinitive | each one | a obeisance | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset obeisance=Product | ||||
| 4 | pass | present | you | me | by a token of your gratitude to me; for my kindness | vn throw-17.1-1 «NP V NP PP.destinations»: agent=Agent i=Theme by token=Destination |
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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