Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 27

But the rest of my little store I give here, and with this one apology: that I have made no attempt to ornament or improve upon them.

Who acts: rest, I · What happens: give, make, ornament, improve · To what, where: attempt

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 (rest, I), 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	_	9 give	cc
2	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	3 rest	det
3	rest	rest	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	nsubj
4	of	of	ADP	_	7 store	case
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	7 store	nmod:poss
6	little	little	ADJ	Degree=Pos	7 store	amod
7	store	store	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 rest	nmod
8	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 give	nsubj
9	give	give	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
10	here	here	ADV	PronType=Dem	9 give	advmod
11	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 apology	punct
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	16 apology	cc
13	with	with	ADP	_	16 apology	case
14	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	16 apology	det
15	one	one	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 apology	compound
16	apology	apology	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 give	parataxis
17	:	:	PUNCT	_	21 made	punct
18	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 made	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 made	nsubj
20	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	21 made	aux
21	made	make	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	16 apology	advcl
22	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	23 attempt	det
23	attempt	attempt	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 made	obj
24	to	to	PART	_	25 ornament	mark
25	ornament	ornament	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 attempt	acl
26	or	or	CCONJ	_	27 improve	cc
27	improve	improve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	25 ornament	conj
28	upon	upon	ADP	_	29 them	case
29	them	they	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 improve	obl
30	.	.	PUNCT	_	9 give	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	give	present	the rest of my little store		here	I nsubj; this one apology parataxis	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
2	make	present · perfect	I	no attempt			vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent attempt=Product
3	ornament	to-infinitive	I not said here	no attempt not said here			vn butter-9.9 «NP V NP.destination»: agent=Agent
4	improve	infinitive	I not said here			upon apologies = apology	vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V»: agent=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 27

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 27