Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, The Eighth Key., sentence 80
But do not tell anyone about this, for if you do a third of your body will be turned into stone.”
Who acts: you · What happens: not tell, do, turn · To what, where: anyone, 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), 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 tell | cc |
| 2 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 tell | advmod |
| 4 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | anyone | anyone | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Ind | 4 tell | obj |
| 6 | about | about | ADP | _ | 7 this | case |
| 7 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 anyone | nmod |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 do | punct |
| 9 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 do | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 do | nsubj |
| 12 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 tell | ccomp |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 third | det |
| 14 | third | third | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | nsubj:pass |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 body | case |
| 16 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 body | nmod:poss |
| 17 | body | body | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 third | nmod |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 turned | aux |
| 19 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 20 turned | aux:pass |
| 20 | turned | turn | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 12 do | acl:relcl |
| 21 | into | into | ADP | _ | 22 stone | case |
| 22 | stone | stone | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 turned | obl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
| 24 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not tell speech: assert | imperative · do-support | you not said here | anyone | about this | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent anyone=Recipient clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | turn | future · passive | a third of your 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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