Gleanings from Chinese folklore, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow, sentence 22
Tell me, and if you can prove it you shall be my teacher.
Who acts: you · What happens: tell, prove, be · To what, where: me, value, teacher · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, The Wild Goose and the Sparrow. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you), 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 | Tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Tell | iobj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 prove | punct |
| 4 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 prove | cc |
| 5 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 8 prove | mark |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 prove | nsubj |
| 7 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 prove | aux |
| 8 | prove | prove | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Tell | conj |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 prove | obj |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 14 teacher | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 14 teacher | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 14 teacher | cop |
| 13 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 teacher | nmod:poss |
| 14 | teacher | teacher | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 prove | parataxis |
| 15 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | me | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent i=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | prove a condition, not said to happen | can | you | value | vn deduce-97.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Theme | ||||
| 3 | is a | shall | you | my teacher | my nmod:poss | tree rules |
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: «Gleanings from Chinese folklore» by Nellie Naomi Russell, Project Gutenberg book 75089 (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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