Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 113
I can scarcely believe it possible you can have a cat so well trained as to be able to carry in a lantern.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: believe, have, train, be, carry · To what, where: wager, cat, lantern
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 (I, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 believe | aux |
| 3 | scarcely | scarcely | ADV | _ | 4 believe | advmod |
| 4 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 believe | obj |
| 6 | possible | possible | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 believe | xcomp |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 believe | parataxis |
| 10 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 cat | det |
| 11 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 have | obj |
| 12 | so | so | ADV | _ | 14 trained | advmod |
| 13 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 14 trained | advmod |
| 14 | trained | train | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 9 have | advcl |
| 15 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 18 able | mark |
| 16 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 able | mark |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | cop |
| 18 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 trained | xcomp |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 carry | mark |
| 20 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 18 able | xcomp |
| 21 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 lantern | case |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 lantern | det |
| 23 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 carry | obl |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 believe | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | can | I | wager | possible, scarcely property | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer it=Stimulus | |||
| 2 | have | can | you | a cat | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cat=Patient | ||||
| 3 | train | participle | you not said here | well property | vn hire-13.5.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | is | to-infinitive | you not said here | able property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | carry | to-infinitive | you not said here | a lantern | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in lantern=Location |
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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