Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 14
Come, get up, and help me to carry this jar of oil for the King, and I will give you a hen for yourself.”
Who acts: you, me, I · What happens: come, get up, help, carry, give · To what, where: me, jar, hen, 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, me, I), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 get | punct |
| 3 | get | get | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 4 | up | up | ADP | _ | 3 get | compound:prt |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 help | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 7 help | cc |
| 7 | help | help | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Come | conj |
| 8 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 7 help | obj |
| 9 | to | to | PART | _ | 10 carry | mark |
| 10 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 help | xcomp |
| 11 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 12 jar | det |
| 12 | jar | jar | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 carry | obj |
| 13 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 oil | case |
| 14 | oil | oil | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 jar | nmod |
| 15 | for | for | ADP | _ | 17 King | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 King | det |
| 17 | King | King | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 carry | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 give | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 give | cc |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 give | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 give | aux |
| 22 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | conj |
| 23 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 give | iobj |
| 24 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 25 hen | det |
| 25 | hen | hen | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 give | obj |
| 26 | for | for | ADP | _ | 27 yourself | case |
| 27 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 22 give | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 2 | get up | infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | help | infinitive | you not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary clause=Theme | ||||
| 4 | carry | to-infinitive | me not said here | this jar of oil | for the King | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent jar=Theme | |||
| 5 | give | future | I | a hen | you | for yourself | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent you=Recipient hen=Theme for yourself=Asset |
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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