Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 5
Do you know that the soles of your feet are all yellow, and that is a sure sign that you are going to die at once?”
Who acts: you, soles, that · What happens: know, be, go, die · To what, where: sure sign · 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 (you, soles, that), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 know | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 know | nsubj |
| 3 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 yellow | mark |
| 5 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 6 soles | det |
| 6 | soles | sole | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 yellow | nsubj |
| 7 | of | of | ADP | _ | 9 feet | case |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 feet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | feet | foot | NOUN | Number=Plur | 6 soles | nmod |
| 10 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 yellow | cop |
| 11 | all | all | ADV | _ | 12 yellow | advmod |
| 12 | yellow | yellow | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 know | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 sign | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 sign | cc |
| 15 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 19 sign | nsubj |
| 16 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 sign | cop |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 sign | det |
| 18 | sure | sure | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 sign | amod |
| 19 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 yellow | conj |
| 20 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 going | mark |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 going | nsubj |
| 22 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 going | aux |
| 23 | going | go | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 19 sign | acl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 die | mark |
| 25 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 going | xcomp |
| 26 | at | at | ADP | _ | 27 once | case |
| 27 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 25 die | obl |
| 28 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
| 29 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present · do-support | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 2 | is | present | the soles of your feet | all, yellow property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | is a | present | that | a sure sign | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | go | present · progressive | you | a sure sign not said here | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | die | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute |
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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