Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 98
“I can prove to you that I am telling the truth by showing you a stranger thing than anything which I have hitherto related.
Who acts: Landlord · What happens: prove, tell, show, have · To what, where: you, truth, stranger thing · 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 (Landlord), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 prove | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 prove | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 prove | aux |
| 4 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 you | case |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 prove | obl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 telling | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 telling | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 telling | aux |
| 10 | telling | tell | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 4 prove | advcl |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 truth | det |
| 12 | truth | truth | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 telling | obj |
| 13 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 14 showing | mark |
| 14 | showing | show | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 10 telling | advcl |
| 15 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 showing | iobj |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 17 | stranger | stranger | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thing | compound |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 showing | obj |
| 19 | than | than | ADP | _ | 20 anything | case |
| 20 | anything | anything | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 18 thing | nmod |
| 21 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 23 have | obj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 anything | acl:relcl |
| 24 | hitherto | hitherto | ADV | _ | 25 related | advmod |
| 25 | related | related | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 have | xcomp |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 prove | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | prove in a quote | can | the Landlord = landlord | you | vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to you=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert in a quote | present · progressive | the Landlord = landlord | the truth | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent truth=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | show in a quote | gerund | the Landlord = landlord not said here | a stranger thing | you | than anything | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient thing=Topic | ||
| 4 | have in a quote | present | the Landlord = landlord | which obj; related property | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent which=Patient |
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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