Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 101
“Very well, I am prepared to bet you anything you like that this will not happen.”
Who acts: you, this · What happens: prepare, bet, like, not happen · To what, where: man, you
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, this), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 prepared | punct |
| 2 | Very | very | ADV | _ | 3 well | advmod |
| 3 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 7 prepared | advmod |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 well | punct |
| 5 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 prepared | nsubj |
| 6 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 prepared | aux:pass |
| 7 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 8 | to | to | PART | _ | 9 bet | mark |
| 9 | bet | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 prepared | xcomp |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 bet | obj |
| 11 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 9 bet | obj |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 like | nsubj |
| 13 | like | like | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 anything | acl:relcl |
| 14 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 happen | mark |
| 15 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 18 happen | nsubj |
| 16 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 happen | aux |
| 17 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 18 happen | advmod |
| 18 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 like | xcomp |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 prepared | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 7 prepared | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prepare in a quote | present · passive | man | well property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme clause=Attribute | ||||
| 2 | bet not said to happen, in a quote | to-infinitive | you | anything obj | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP NP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient anything=Asset | ||||
| 3 | like in a quote | present | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | not happen not said to happen, in a quote | future | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «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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