Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 21

A Kyang is such a large animal that you can scarcely eat him all yourselves, and I am sure you will allow a small creature like me to have a little bit of the spoil.”

Who acts: Kyang, you, I · What happens: be, eat, allow, have · To what, where: large animal, small creature, little bit

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Kyang, you, 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	A	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	2 Kyang	det
2	Kyang	Kyang	PROPN	Number=Sing	7 animal	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	7 animal	cop
4	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	7 animal	det:predet
5	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 animal	det
6	large	large	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 animal	amod
7	animal	animal	NOUN	Number=Sing	root	root
8	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	12 eat	obj
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	12 eat	nsubj
10	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 eat	aux
11	scarcely	scarcely	ADV	_	12 eat	advmod
12	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	7 animal	acl:relcl
13	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 eat	obj
14	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	15 yourselves	reparandum
15	yourselves	yourselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	12 eat	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 sure	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	20 sure	cc
18	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	20 sure	nsubj
19	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	20 sure	cop
20	sure	sure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	12 eat	advcl
21	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	23 allow	nsubj
22	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 allow	aux
23	allow	allow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 sure	ccomp
24	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	26 creature	det
25	small	small	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 creature	amod
26	creature	creature	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 allow	obj
27	like	like	ADP	_	28 me	case
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 allow	obl
29	to	to	PART	_	30 have	mark
30	have	have	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 allow	advcl
31	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	33 bit	det
32	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	33 bit	amod
33	bit	bit	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 have	obj
34	of	of	ADP	_	36 spoil	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	36 spoil	det
36	spoil	spoil	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 bit	nmod
37	.	.	PUNCT	_	7 animal	punct
38	”	"	PUNCT	_	7 animal	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	is a	present	a Kyang	such large animal		tree rules
2	eat	can	you	such large animal	yourselves obl; Kyang obj; scarcely property	tree rules
3	is	present	I		sure property	tree rules
4	allow	future	you	a small creature	like me	vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Beneficiary
5	have	to-infinitive	you not said here	a little bit of the spoil		vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bit=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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 21

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 21