Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head., sentence 27
“I hope you will not disbelieve my word,” replied the Drake very earnestly; “I assure you I can do all this, and even more, if you will release me.”
Who acts: Drake, you, Boy, my · What happens: hope, not disbelieve, reply, assure, do, release · To what, where: word, you, this, Boy · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drake, you, Boy, my), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 hope | nsubj |
| 3 | hope | hope | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 7 disbelieve | nsubj |
| 5 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 disbelieve | aux |
| 6 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 disbelieve | advmod |
| 7 | disbelieve | disbelieve | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hope | ccomp |
| 8 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 word | nmod:poss |
| 9 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 7 disbelieve | obj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 11 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 replied | punct |
| 12 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | parataxis |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 Drake | det |
| 14 | Drake | Drake | PROPN | Number=Sing | 12 replied | obj |
| 15 | very | very | ADV | _ | 16 earnestly | advmod |
| 16 | earnestly | earnestly | ADV | _ | 12 replied | advmod |
| 17 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 assure | punct |
| 18 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 20 assure | punct |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 assure | nsubj |
| 20 | assure | assure | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 hope | conj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 20 assure | iobj |
| 22 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 24 do | nsubj |
| 23 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 do | aux |
| 24 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 20 assure | ccomp |
| 25 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 26 this | det:predet |
| 26 | this | this | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 24 do | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 more | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 30 more | cc |
| 29 | even | even | ADV | _ | 30 more | advmod |
| 30 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 3 hope | conj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 35 release | punct |
| 32 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 35 release | mark |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 35 release | nsubj |
| 34 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 35 release | aux |
| 35 | release | release | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 hope | conj |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 release | obj |
| 37 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
| 38 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 hope | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | hope in a quote | present | the Drake = drake | vn long-32.2 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 2 | not disbelieve in a quote | future | you | my word | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | reply speech: assert | past | the Drake | earnestly property | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 4 | assure in a quote | present | Boy | you | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 5 | do in a quote | can | Boy | this | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | release a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | Boy | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source | ||||
| 7 | word in a quote | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=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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