Folk tales from Tibet, The Kyang, the Fox, the Wolf and the Hare., sentence 5
If you will wait for a few months until next autumn you will find that I shall be twice as fat as I am now and will make you a much better feast.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: wait, find, be, make · To what, where: better feast, you · 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, 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 4 wait | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 wait | nsubj |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 wait | aux |
| 4 | wait | wait | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 months | case |
| 6 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 months | det |
| 7 | few | few | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 months | amod |
| 8 | months | month | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 wait | obl |
| 9 | until | until | ADP | _ | 11 autumn | case |
| 10 | next | next | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 autumn | amod |
| 11 | autumn | autumn | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 find | obl |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 find | nsubj |
| 13 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 find | aux |
| 14 | find | find | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wait | advcl |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 21 fat | mark |
| 16 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 21 fat | nsubj |
| 17 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 fat | aux |
| 18 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 21 fat | cop |
| 19 | twice | twice | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 21 fat | advmod |
| 20 | as | as | ADV | _ | 21 fat | advmod |
| 21 | fat | fat | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 find | ccomp |
| 22 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 25 now | mark |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 now | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 now | cop |
| 25 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 21 fat | advcl |
| 26 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 28 make | cc |
| 27 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 make | aux |
| 28 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 wait | conj |
| 29 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 28 make | obj |
| 30 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 33 feast | det |
| 31 | much | much | ADV | _ | 32 better | advmod |
| 32 | better | good | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 33 feast | amod |
| 33 | feast | feast | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 make | obj |
| 34 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
| 35 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 wait | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | wait | future | you | month | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | find | future | you | autumn | vn declare-29.4-1-1 «NP V what S_INF»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 3 | is | shall | I | fat, twice property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | I | now property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | make | future | you not said here | a better feast | you | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP NP»: agent=Asset you=Beneficiary feast=Product |
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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