Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 73

All pearls look very much alike, and it would be impossible for us to prove to you whence they came.

Who acts: pearls, us · What happens: look, be, prove, come · To what, where: you

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Three Thieves.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (pearls, us), 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	All	all	DET	PronType=Tot	2 pearls	det
2	pearls	pearl	NOUN	Number=Plur	3 look	nsubj
3	look	look	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	very	very	ADV	_	5 much	advmod
5	much	much	ADV	_	6 alike	advmod
6	alike	alike	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	xcomp
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	12 impossible	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	12 impossible	cc
9	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	12 impossible	expl
10	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	12 impossible	aux
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	12 impossible	cop
12	impossible	impossible	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 look	parataxis
13	for	for	SCONJ	_	16 prove	mark
14	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 prove	nsubj
15	to	to	PART	_	16 prove	mark
16	prove	prove	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	12 impossible	advcl
17	to	to	ADP	_	18 you	case
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	16 prove	obl
19	whence	whence	ADV	PronType=Int	21 came	advmod
20	they	they	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs	21 came	nsubj
21	came	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	16 prove	parataxis
22	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 look	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	other	roles by
1	look	present	all pearls		alike property	vn stimulus_subject-30.4 «NP V ADJ»: agent=Stimulus
2	is	would			impossible property	tree rules
3	prove	to-infinitive	us	you		vn indicate-78-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Pivot to you=Experiencer
4	come	past	pearls = pearl		whence property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 73

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Three Thieves., sentence 73