Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 75
You had better slip down stairs in the dark, and by beating the vessel against the stone you will soon succeed in freeing yourself.”
Who acts: You · What happens: have down, beat, succeed, free · To what, where: better slip, dark, vessel, yourself
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), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 had | nsubj |
| 2 | had | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 4 slip | amod |
| 4 | slip | slip | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obj |
| 5 | down | down | ADP | _ | 2 had | compound:prt |
| 6 | stairs | stair | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 had | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 dark | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 dark | det |
| 9 | dark | dark | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 had | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 succeed | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 22 succeed | cc |
| 12 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 13 beating | mark |
| 13 | beating | beat | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 succeed | advcl |
| 14 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 15 vessel | det |
| 15 | vessel | vessel | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beating | obj |
| 16 | against | against | ADP | _ | 18 stone | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 stone | det |
| 18 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 beating | obl |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 succeed | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 succeed | aux |
| 21 | soon | soon | ADV | Degree=Pos | 22 succeed | advmod |
| 22 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 had | parataxis |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 24 freeing | mark |
| 24 | freeing | free | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 22 succeed | advcl |
| 25 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 24 freeing | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 succeed | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 succeed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have down | past | You | better slip | the dark | stairs obj | tree rules | ||
| 2 | beat | gerund | you not said here | the vessel | against the stone | vn hit-18.1-1 «NP V NP PP»: agent=Agent vessel=Instrument against stone=Patient | |||
| 3 | succeed | future | you | soon property | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | free | gerund | you not said here | yourself | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer yourself=Source |
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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