Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 26
And as the child grows big I shall have to take its education in hand.
Who acts: child, I · What happens: grow, have, take, educate · To what, where: education, hand
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 (child, 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 have | cc |
| 2 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 5 grows | mark |
| 3 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 4 child | det |
| 4 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 grows | nsubj |
| 5 | grows | grow | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | advcl |
| 6 | big | big | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 grows | xcomp |
| 7 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 have | nsubj |
| 8 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 have | aux |
| 9 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 take | mark |
| 11 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 have | xcomp |
| 12 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 education | nmod:poss |
| 13 | education | education | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obj |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 15 hand | case |
| 15 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 take | obl |
| 16 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 9 have | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | grow | present | the child | big property | vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | have | shall | I | tree rules | |||||
| 3 | take | to-infinitive | I not said here | child's education | hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent education=Value in hand=Location | |||
| 4 | educate | child | nom education «act transitive»: poss=agent |
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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