Folk tales of Sind and Guzarat, Rupsinh and the Queen of the Anardes., sentence 31
Avoid the mountain; for near it lives a monstrous elephant; and should it see you, it will trample you to death.
Who acts: you, mountain · What happens: avoid, live, see, trample · To what, where: mountain, monstrous elephant, you
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, mountain), 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 | Avoid | avoid | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 mountain | det |
| 3 | mountain | mountain | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Avoid | obj |
| 4 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 8 lives | punct |
| 5 | for | for | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 6 | near | near | ADP | _ | 7 it | case |
| 7 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 lives | obl |
| 8 | lives | live | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Avoid | advcl |
| 9 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 11 elephant | det |
| 10 | monstrous | monstrous | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 11 elephant | amod |
| 11 | elephant | elephant | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 lives | obj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 16 see | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 see | cc |
| 14 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 see | aux |
| 15 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 see | nsubj |
| 16 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Avoid | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 see | obj |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 trample | punct |
| 19 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 trample | nsubj |
| 20 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 21 trample | aux |
| 21 | trample | trample | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Avoid | conj |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 21 trample | obj |
| 23 | to | to | ADP | _ | 24 death | case |
| 24 | death | death | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 trample | obl |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Avoid | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | avoid | imperative | you not said here | the mountain | vn avoid-52 «NP V NP.location»: agent=Agent mountain=Location | ||||
| 2 | live | present | you not said here | a monstrous elephant | for mountain | vn lodge-46 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme elephant=Location | |||
| 3 | see | should | mountain | you | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer you=Stimulus | ||||
| 4 | trample | future | mountain | you | to death | 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: «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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