Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 28
And if it is a good child and does what I tell it, I shall be very kind to it.
Who acts: child, I · What happens: be, tell · To what, where: good child, child · 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 (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 | _ | 19 kind | cc |
| 2 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 7 child | mark |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 child | nsubj |
| 4 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 child | cop |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 child | det |
| 6 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 child | amod |
| 7 | child | child | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 kind | advcl |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 what | cc |
| 9 | does | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | aux |
| 10 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 7 child | conj |
| 11 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | nsubj |
| 12 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 what | acl:relcl |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 tell | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 child | punct |
| 15 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 kind | nsubj |
| 16 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 kind | aux |
| 17 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 19 kind | cop |
| 18 | very | very | ADV | _ | 19 kind | advmod |
| 19 | kind | kind | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 it | case |
| 21 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 kind | obl |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 19 kind | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a a condition, not said to happen | present | child | a good child | what conj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present | I | child | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | I | child | kind property | tree rules |
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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