Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Foolish Young Mussulman., sentence 99
I will bet you that when night falls a lantern will be carried into this room by a cat instead of by a servant.”
Who acts: I, night, cat · What happens: bet, fall, carry · To what, where: you, lantern, room
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 (I, night, cat), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 bet | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 bet | aux |
| 3 | bet | bet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 bet | obj |
| 5 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 carried | mark |
| 6 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 8 falls | mark |
| 7 | night | night | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 falls | nsubj |
| 8 | falls | fall | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 10 lantern | det |
| 10 | lantern | lantern | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 falls | obj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 carried | aux:pass |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 3 bet | advcl |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 room | case |
| 15 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 16 room | det |
| 16 | room | room | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 17 | by | by | ADP | _ | 19 cat | case |
| 18 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 19 cat | det |
| 19 | cat | cat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 20 | instead | instead | ADV | ExtPos=ADP | 24 servant | case |
| 21 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 instead | fixed |
| 22 | by | by | ADP | _ | 24 servant | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 servant | det |
| 24 | servant | servant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 bet | punct |
| 26 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 bet | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bet | future | I | you | vn bill-54.5-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | fall | present | night | a lantern | vn become-109.1-1 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Patient lantern=Result | ||||
| 3 | carry | future · passive | a cat | this room | instead a servant | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=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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