Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 36

In conclusion, I must express my grateful acknowledgments to Mr. Perceval Landon, to whose suggestion the collection and publication of these Tales, as well as their illustration by a native artist, is in a great measure due; and I must thank him, moreover, for many valuable hints and much kindly sympathy and assistance.

Who acts: I, my, Tales, native artist · What happens: express, be, thank, acknowledge, suggest, illustrate · To what, where: grateful acknowledgments, Perceval, conclusion, great measure, collection

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, my, Tales, native artist), 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	In	in	ADP	_	2 conclusion	case
2	conclusion	conclusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 express	obl
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	2 conclusion	punct
4	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 express	nsubj
5	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	6 express	aux
6	express	express	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
7	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 acknowledgments	nmod:poss
8	grateful	grateful	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 acknowledgments	amod
9	acknowledgments	acknowledgment	NOUN	Number=Plur	6 express	obj
10	to	to	ADP	_	12 Perceval	case
11	Mr.	Mr.	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Perceval	nmod:desc
12	Perceval	Perceval	PROPN	Number=Sing	6 express	obl
13	Landon	Landon	PROPN	Number=Sing	12 Perceval	flat
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 suggestion	punct
15	to	to	ADP	_	17 suggestion	case
16	whose	whose	PRON	Poss=Yes PronType=Rel	17 suggestion	nmod:poss
17	suggestion	suggestion	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 express	obl
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 collection	det
19	collection	collection	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Tales	nsubj
20	and	and	CCONJ	_	21 publication	cc
21	publication	publication	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 collection	conj
22	of	of	ADP	_	24 Tales	case
23	these	this	DET	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	24 Tales	det
24	Tales	Tale	PROPN	Number=Plur	17 suggestion	nmod
25	,	,	PUNCT	_	30 illustration	punct
26	as	as	ADV	ExtPos=CCONJ	30 illustration	cc
27	well	well	ADV	Degree=Pos	26 as	fixed
28	as	as	ADP	_	26 as	fixed
29	their	their	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 illustration	nmod:poss
30	illustration	illustration	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Tales	appos
31	by	by	ADP	_	34 artist	case
32	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	34 artist	det
33	native	native	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 artist	amod
34	artist	artist	NOUN	Number=Sing	30 illustration	nmod
35	,	,	PUNCT	_	40 measure	punct
36	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	40 measure	cop
37	in	in	ADP	_	40 measure	case
38	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	40 measure	det
39	great	great	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 measure	amod
40	measure	measure	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 Tales	appos
41	due	due	ADJ	Degree=Pos	40 measure	amod
42	;	;	PUNCT	_	46 thank	punct
43	and	and	CCONJ	_	46 thank	cc
44	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	46 thank	nsubj
45	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	46 thank	aux
46	thank	thank	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 express	parataxis
47	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	46 thank	obj
48	,	,	PUNCT	_	49 moreover	punct
49	moreover	moreover	ADV	_	46 thank	advmod
50	,	,	PUNCT	_	54 hints	punct
51	for	for	ADP	_	54 hints	case
52	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 hints	amod
53	valuable	valuable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	54 hints	amod
54	hints	hint	NOUN	Number=Plur	46 thank	conj
55	and	and	CCONJ	_	58 sympathy	cc
56	much	much	ADV	_	57 kindly	advmod
57	kindly	kindly	ADV	_	58 sympathy	advmod
58	sympathy	sympathy	NOUN	Number=Sing	54 hints	conj
59	and	and	CCONJ	_	60 assistance	cc
60	assistance	assistance	NOUN	Number=Sing	58 sympathy	conj
61	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 express	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	express	must	I	my grateful acknowledgments	Perceval Mr.	conclusion	to suggestion of this Tales the collection and publication	vn reflexive_appearance-48.1.2 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent acknowledgment=Theme to perceval=Recipient
2	is	present				a great measure		tree rules
3	thank speech: thank	must	I		Perceval		many valuable hints and sympathy and assistance conj; moreover property	vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
4	acknowledge		my					nom acknowledgment «state transitive»: poss=agent
5	suggest		this Tales the collection and publication					nom suggestion «cognition intransitive»: of=agent
6	illustrate		a native artist	collection				nom illustration «communication transitive»: poss=patient by=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 36

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Folk tales from Tibet, Opening, sentence 36