Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 30

I leave the Tales to speak for themselves; but would invite, and shall cordially welcome, the criticisms and surmises of all students of folk-lore who are in a position to give an expert opinion upon such points, and to shed a light upon obscure corners into which I have been unable to penetrate.

Who acts: I, folk lore · What happens: leave, speak, invite, welcome, be, give · To what, where: Tales, criticisms, position, expert opinion, light, obscure corners · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (I, folk lore), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 leave	nsubj
2	leave	leave	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	4 Tales	det
4	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	2 leave	obj
5	to	to	PART	_	6 speak	mark
6	speak	speak	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 leave	advcl
7	for	for	ADP	_	8 themselves	case
8	themselves	themselves	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes	6 speak	obl
9	;	;	PUNCT	_	12 invite	punct
10	but	but	CCONJ	_	12 invite	cc
11	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 invite	aux
12	invite	invite	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	2 leave	parataxis
13	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 welcome	punct
14	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 welcome	cc
15	shall	shall	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	17 welcome	aux
16	cordially	cordially	ADV	_	17 welcome	advmod
17	welcome	welcome	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 invite	parataxis
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	20 criticisms	punct
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 criticisms	det
20	criticisms	criticism	NOUN	Number=Plur	17 welcome	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	22 surmises	cc
22	surmises	surmise	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 criticisms	conj
23	of	of	ADP	_	25 students	case
24	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	25 students	det
25	students	student	NOUN	Number=Plur	20 criticisms	nmod
26	of	of	ADP	_	29 lore	case
27	folk	folk	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lore	compound
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 folk	punct
29	lore	lore	NOUN	Number=Sing	25 students	nmod
30	who	who	PRON	PronType=Rel	34 position	nsubj
31	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	34 position	cop
32	in	in	ADP	_	34 position	case
33	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 position	det
34	position	position	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 lore	appos
35	to	to	PART	_	36 give	mark
36	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	34 position	acl
37	an	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	39 opinion	det
38	expert	expert	NOUN	Number=Sing	39 opinion	compound
39	opinion	opinion	NOUN	Number=Sing	36 give	obj
40	upon	upon	ADP	_	42 points	case
41	such	such	ADJ	Degree=Pos	42 points	amod
42	points	point	NOUN	Number=Plur	39 opinion	nmod
43	,	,	PUNCT	_	46 shed	punct
44	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 shed	cc
45	to	to	PART	_	46 shed	mark
46	shed	shed	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	12 invite	conj
47	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	48 light	det
48	light	light	NOUN	Number=Sing	46 shed	obj
49	upon	upon	ADP	_	51 corners	case
50	obscure	obscure	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 corners	amod
51	corners	corner	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 shed	obl
52	into	into	ADP	_	53 which	case
53	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	57 unable	obl
54	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	57 unable	nsubj
55	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	57 unable	aux
56	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	57 unable	cop
57	unable	unable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	51 corners	acl:relcl
58	to	to	PART	_	59 penetrate	mark
59	penetrate	penetrate	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	57 unable	xcomp
60	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 leave	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	leave	present	I	the Tales			vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tale=Theme
2	speak speech: other	to-infinitive	I not said here			for TALES = tale	vn talk-37.5 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	invite	would					vn promote-102 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent
4	welcome	shall		the criticisms of all students of folk lore and surmises		cordially property	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent criticism=Theme
5	is	present	folk lore		a position		tree rules
6	give	to-infinitive		a expert opinion		upon such points	vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent opinion=Theme
7	shed	to-infinitive		a light		upon obscure corners	vn substance_emission-43.4-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location light=Source
8	is	present · perfect	I		obscure corners	unable property	tree rules
9	penetrate	to-infinitive	I not said here				vn poke-19 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent

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 30