Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 29
If you do, you will die; for the lake is a fairies’ lake and no mortal who bathes in it or drinks its waters can live.
Who acts: you, mortal, waters · What happens: do, die, be, bathe, drink, live · To what, where: lake
This is a sentence of «Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat» by C. A. Kincaid, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, mortal, waters), 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 | _ | 3 do | mark |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 do | nsubj |
| 3 | do | do | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | advcl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 do | punct |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 die | nsubj |
| 6 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 die | aux |
| 7 | die | die | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 lake | punct |
| 9 | for | for | ADP | _ | 11 lake | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 lake | det |
| 11 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lake | obl |
| 12 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 lake | cop |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 fairies | det |
| 14 | fairies | fairy | NOUN | Number=Plur | 16 lake | nmod:poss |
| 15 | ’ | 's | PART | _ | 14 fairies | case |
| 16 | lake | lake | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 die | parataxis |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 mortal | cc |
| 18 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 19 mortal | det |
| 19 | mortal | mortal | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 lake | conj |
| 20 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 21 bathes | nsubj |
| 21 | bathes | bathe | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 19 mortal | acl:relcl |
| 22 | in | in | ADP | _ | 23 it | case |
| 23 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 bathes | obl |
| 24 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 25 drinks | cc |
| 25 | drinks | drink | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 bathes | conj |
| 26 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 27 waters | nmod:poss |
| 27 | waters | water | NOUN | Number=Plur | 29 live | nsubj |
| 28 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 live | aux |
| 29 | live | live | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 drinks | ccomp |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 7 die | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do a condition, not said to happen | present | you | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | die | future | you | vn calibratable_cos-45.6.1 «NP.attribute V»: agent=Attribute | |||||
| 3 | is a | present | a fairies's lake and no mortal | for the lake; a fairies nmod:poss; no mortal conj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | bathe | present | no mortal | in lake | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent in it=Theme | ||||
| 5 | drink | present | no mortal not said here | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | live | can | lake's waters | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
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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