Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 22
And when the calf grows big I shall sell both the cow and the calf.
Who acts: calf, I · What happens: grow, sell · To what, where: cow
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 (calf, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 sell | cc |
| 2 | when | when | ADV | PronType=Int | 5 grows | advmod |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 calf | det |
| 4 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grows | nsubj |
| 5 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 sell | advcl |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grows | xcomp |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 sell | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 sell | aux |
| 9 | sell | sell | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | both | both | CCONJ | _ | 12 cow | cc:preconj |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 cow | det |
| 12 | cow | cow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 sell | obj |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 15 calf | cc |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 calf | det |
| 15 | calf | calf | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 cow | conj |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 sell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the calf | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | sell | shall | I | the cow and the calf | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent cow=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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