Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 116
“I have thought over what you said to me yesterday, and I am now prepared to make a bet with you that the cat will not carry a lantern into this room at dusk this evening.”
Who acts: bet, you, cat · What happens: think, say, prepare, make, not carry · To what, where: bet, lantern, room · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (bet, you, cat), 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 | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 thought | nsubj |
| 3 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 thought | aux |
| 4 | thought | think | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | over | over | ADP | _ | 6 what | case |
| 6 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 4 thought | obl |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 said | nsubj |
| 8 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 6 what | acl:relcl |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 10 me | case |
| 10 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 said | obl |
| 11 | yesterday | yesterday | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 said | obl:unmarked |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 prepared | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 prepared | cc |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 prepared | nsubj |
| 15 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 prepared | aux:pass |
| 16 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 17 prepared | advmod |
| 17 | prepared | prepare | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 thought | conj |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 make | mark |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 17 prepared | advcl |
| 20 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 21 bet | det |
| 21 | bet | bet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | obj |
| 22 | with | with | ADP | _ | 23 you | case |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obl |
| 24 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 29 carry | mark |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 cat | det |
| 26 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carry | nsubj |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 carry | aux |
| 28 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 29 carry | advmod |
| 29 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 19 make | advcl |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 31 lantern | det |
| 31 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carry | obj |
| 32 | into | into | ADP | _ | 34 room | case |
| 33 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 34 room | det |
| 34 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carry | obl |
| 35 | at | at | ADP | _ | 36 dusk | case |
| 36 | dusk | dusk | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carry | obl |
| 37 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 38 evening | det |
| 38 | evening | evening | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 carry | obl:unmarked |
| 39 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
| 40 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 thought | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other in a quote | present · perfect | bet | what obl | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert in a quote | past | you | bet | yesterday | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient | |||
| 3 | prepare in a quote | present · passive | bet | now | vn establish-55.5-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | ||||
| 4 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | a bet | with you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset bet=Product | ||||
| 5 | not carry in a quote | future | the cat | a lantern | this room | dusk; evening | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent lantern=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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