Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 20

Armed diplomatic missions and an official position, apart from all questions of difference of language and nationality, do not tend to elicit the ideal sentiments necessary for the establishment of complete mutual confidence.

Who acts: Armed diplomatic missions · What happens: not tend, elicit, question, establish · To what, where: ideal sentiments, difference, complete mutual confidence

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Opening. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Armed diplomatic missions), 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	Armed	armed	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 missions	amod
2	diplomatic	diplomatic	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 missions	amod
3	missions	mission	NOUN	Number=Plur	22 tend	nsubj
4	and	and	CCONJ	_	7 position	cc
5	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	7 position	det
6	official	official	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 position	amod
7	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 missions	conj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 questions	punct
9	apart	apart	ADV	_	12 questions	advmod
10	from	from	ADP	_	12 questions	case
11	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	12 questions	det
12	questions	question	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 missions	conj
13	of	of	ADP	_	14 difference	case
14	difference	difference	NOUN	Number=Sing	12 questions	nmod
15	of	of	ADP	_	16 language	case
16	language	language	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 difference	nmod
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	18 nationality	cc
18	nationality	nationality	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 language	conj
19	,	,	PUNCT	_	3 missions	punct
20	do	do	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	22 tend	aux
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	22 tend	advmod
22	tend	tend	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
23	to	to	PART	_	24 elicit	mark
24	elicit	elicit	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	22 tend	xcomp
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 sentiments	det
26	ideal	ideal	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sentiments	amod
27	sentiments	sentiment	NOUN	Number=Plur	24 elicit	obj
28	necessary	necessary	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 sentiments	amod
29	for	for	ADP	_	31 establishment	case
30	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	31 establishment	det
31	establishment	establishment	NOUN	Number=Sing	28 necessary	obl
32	of	of	ADP	_	35 confidence	case
33	complete	complete	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 confidence	amod
34	mutual	mutual	ADJ	Degree=Pos	35 confidence	amod
35	confidence	confidence	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 establishment	nmod
36	.	.	PUNCT	_	22 tend	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	roles by
1	not tend	infinitive · do-support	Armed diplomatic missions and a official position and all questions of difference of language and nationality		tree rules
2	elicit	to-infinitive	Armed diplomatic missions and a official position and all questions of difference of language and nationality not said here	the ideal sentiments	vn engender-27.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition sentiment=Patient
3	question			difference of language and nationality	nom question «communication transitive»: of=patient
4	establish			complete mutual confidence	nom establishment «act transitive»: of=patient

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 from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, Project Gutenberg book 75000 (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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 20

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Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 20