Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 103
“If this does not happen, I will hand you over my house, my merchandise, and everything I possess; but if it does, you will forfeit all your baggage, animals and merchandise to me.”
Who acts: this, Landlord, merchandise, everything · What happens: not happen, hand, possess, do, forfeit · To what, where: you, house, baggage, Landlord
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 (this, Landlord, merchandise, everything), 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 | _ | 10 hand | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 6 happen | mark |
| 3 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 6 happen | nsubj |
| 4 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 happen | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 happen | advmod |
| 6 | happen | happen | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hand | advcl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 happen | punct |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 hand | nsubj |
| 9 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 hand | aux |
| 10 | hand | hand | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 hand | iobj |
| 12 | over | over | ADP | _ | 14 house | case |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 house | nmod:poss |
| 14 | house | house | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 hand | obl |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 merchandise | punct |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 merchandise | nmod:poss |
| 17 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 house | conj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 31 forfeit | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 31 forfeit | cc |
| 20 | everything | everything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Tot | 31 forfeit | nsubj |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 possess | nsubj |
| 22 | possess | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 everything | acl:relcl |
| 23 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 forfeit | punct |
| 24 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 forfeit | cc |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 27 does | mark |
| 26 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 27 does | nsubj |
| 27 | does | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 31 forfeit | advcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 does | punct |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 forfeit | nsubj |
| 30 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 31 forfeit | aux |
| 31 | forfeit | forfeit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 hand | conj |
| 32 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 34 baggage | det:predet |
| 33 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 34 baggage | nmod:poss |
| 34 | baggage | baggage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 forfeit | obj |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 animals | punct |
| 36 | animals | animal | NOUN | Number=Plur | 34 baggage | conj |
| 37 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 38 merchandise | cc |
| 38 | merchandise | merchandise | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 baggage | conj |
| 39 | to | to | ADP | _ | 40 me | case |
| 40 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 31 forfeit | obl |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 hand | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 hand | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not happen a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · do-support | this | vn occur-48.3-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | hand in a quote | future | the Landlord = landlord | you | my house and my merchandise | vn send-11.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | |||
| 3 | possess in a quote | present | the Landlord = landlord | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | |||||
| 4 | do a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | merchandise | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | forfeit in a quote | future | everything | your baggage and animals and merchandise | the Landlord = landlord | you nsubj | vn contribute-13.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent baggage=Theme to i=Recipient |
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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