Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 33

I would suggest to you, instead, that it would be a very much better plan if you would strangle him, as in that case no blood would be lost, and we should derive the full benefit from his carcase.”

Who acts: I, deal, you, case, we · What happens: suggest, be, strangle, lose, derive · To what, where: you, better plan, Kyang, blood, full benefit, carcase

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 (I, deal, you, case), 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 suggest	nsubj
2	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	3 suggest	aux
3	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 you	case
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	3 suggest	obl
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	7 instead	punct
7	instead	instead	ADV	_	3 suggest	advmod
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 plan	punct
9	that	that	SCONJ	_	17 plan	mark
10	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	17 plan	nsubj
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 plan	aux
12	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	17 plan	cop
13	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 plan	det
14	very	very	ADV	_	15 much	advmod
15	much	much	ADV	_	16 better	advmod
16	better	good	ADJ	Degree=Cmp	17 plan	amod
17	plan	plan	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 suggest	parataxis
18	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 strangle	mark
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 strangle	nsubj
20	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 strangle	aux
21	strangle	strangle	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	17 plan	acl
22	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 strangle	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 case	punct
24	as	as	ADP	_	27 case	case
25	in	in	ADP	_	27 case	case
26	that	that	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	27 case	det
27	case	case	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 strangle	obl
28	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	29 blood	det
29	blood	blood	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 lost	nsubj:pass
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	32 lost	aux
31	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	32 lost	aux:pass
32	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 case	acl:relcl
33	,	,	PUNCT	_	37 derive	punct
34	and	and	CCONJ	_	37 derive	cc
35	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	37 derive	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	37 derive	aux
37	derive	derive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	3 suggest	parataxis
38	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 benefit	det
39	full	full	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 benefit	amod
40	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 derive	obj
41	from	from	ADP	_	43 carcase	case
42	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	43 carcase	nmod:poss
43	carcase	carcase	NOUN	Number=Sing	40 benefit	nmod
44	.	.	PUNCT	_	37 derive	punct
45	”	"	PUNCT	_	37 derive	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	would	I		you		instead property	vn say-37.7-1-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient how S»: agent=Agent to you=Recipient
2	is a	would	deal	a better plan				tree rules
3	strangle a condition, not said to happen	would	you	Kyang			as that case	vn poison-42.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient
4	lose	would · passive	that case not said here	no blood				vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V NP»: subject=Eventuality
5	derive	should	we	the full benefit		Kyang's carcase		vn create-26.4 «NP V NP PP.material»: agent=Agent benefit=Result from carcase=Material

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 33

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 33