Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 54
But do not repeat what I have told you; for if anyone repeats it, one third of his or her body will be turned into stone.”
Who acts: you, I, anyone · What happens: not repeat, tell, repeat, turn · To what, where: you, way, one third, stone · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, The Eighth Key.. 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, anyone), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 4 repeat | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeat | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 repeat | advmod |
| 4 | repeat | repeat | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Int | 8 told | obj |
| 6 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 told | nsubj |
| 7 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 told | aux |
| 8 | told | tell | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 4 repeat | ccomp |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 told | iobj |
| 10 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 14 repeats | punct |
| 11 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 14 repeats | mark |
| 12 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 14 repeats | mark |
| 13 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 14 repeats | nsubj |
| 14 | repeats | repeat | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 repeat | parataxis |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 repeats | obj |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 third | punct |
| 17 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 18 third | nummod |
| 18 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 23 body | case |
| 20 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 body | nmod:poss |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 23 body | cc |
| 22 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 23 body | nmod:poss |
| 23 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 third | nmod |
| 24 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 26 turned | aux |
| 25 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 26 turned | aux:pass |
| 26 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 14 repeats | acl:relcl |
| 27 | into | into | ADP | _ | 28 stone | case |
| 28 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 turned | obl |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeat | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 repeat | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not repeat | imperative · do-support | you not said here | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V how S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 2 | tell speech: assert | present · perfect | I | you | what obj | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient what=Topic | |||
| 3 | repeat a condition, not said to happen | present | anyone | way | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Eventuality | ||||
| 4 | turn | future · passive | one third of king's body | stone | vn roll-51.3.1 «NP V NP PP.trajectory»: subject=Theme into stone=Trajectory |
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 of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Project Gutenberg book 76982 (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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