Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 32
Don’t you think it would be a pity to kill this fine young Kyang in the ordinary way by seizing his throat, for if you do so a great deal of his blood will be wasted?
Who acts: you, suggestion · What happens: not do, think, be, kill, seize, waste · To what, where: pity, fine young Kyang, ordinary way, throat, great deal, blood · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (you, suggestion), 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 | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 think | advcl |
| 2 | n’t | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 1 Do | advmod |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 think | nsubj |
| 4 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 wasted | advcl |
| 5 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 9 pity | nsubj |
| 6 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 pity | aux |
| 7 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pity | cop |
| 8 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 9 pity | det |
| 9 | pity | pity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 think | ccomp |
| 10 | to | to | PART | _ | 11 kill | mark |
| 11 | kill | kill | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 pity | acl |
| 12 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 15 Kyang | nsubj |
| 13 | fine | fine | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Kyang | amod |
| 14 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 15 Kyang | amod |
| 15 | Kyang | Kyang | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | obj |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 19 way | case |
| 17 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 19 way | det |
| 18 | ordinary | ordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 way | amod |
| 19 | way | way | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 kill | obl |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 seizing | mark |
| 21 | seizing | seize | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 kill | advcl |
| 22 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 throat | nmod:poss |
| 23 | throat | throat | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 seizing | obj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 do | punct |
| 25 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 26 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 28 do | mark |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 do | nsubj |
| 28 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 38 wasted | aux |
| 29 | so | so | ADV | _ | 38 wasted | advmod |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 32 deal | det |
| 31 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 deal | amod |
| 32 | deal | deal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 wasted | nsubj:pass |
| 33 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 blood | case |
| 34 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 blood | nmod:poss |
| 35 | blood | blood | NOUN | Number=Sing | 32 deal | nmod |
| 36 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 wasted | aux |
| 37 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 38 wasted | aux:pass |
| 38 | wasted | waste | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 39 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 38 wasted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not do | infinitive | you not said here | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | think speech: other | present | you | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is a | would | suggestion | a pity | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | kill | to-infinitive | you not said here | fine young Kyang this | the ordinary way | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kyang=Theme | |||
| 5 | seize | gerund | you not said here | Kyang's throat | vn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent throat=Theme | ||||
| 6 | waste | present · passive · do-support | a great deal of Kyang's blood | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: subject=Patient | |||||
| 7 | deal | Kyang's blood | nom deal «act transitive»: of=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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