Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 31

So we will join company, and it will indeed be bad luck if we cannot succeed in hitting upon something profitable before many days have passed.”

Who acts: we, company · What happens: join, be, not succeed, hit, pass · To what, where: company, bad luck, many days

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of the Lama’s Servant.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (we, company), 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	So	so	ADV	_	4 join	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 join	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 join	aux
4	join	join	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	company	company	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 join	obj
6	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 luck	punct
7	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 luck	cc
8	it	it	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 luck	nsubj
9	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 luck	aux
10	indeed	indeed	ADV	_	13 luck	advmod
11	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	13 luck	cop
12	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	13 luck	amod
13	luck	luck	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 join	obl
14	if	if	SCONJ	_	18 succeed	mark
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	18 succeed	nsubj
16	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	18 succeed	aux
17	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	18 succeed	advmod
18	succeed	succeed	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 join	advcl
19	in	in	SCONJ	_	20 hitting	mark
20	hitting	hit	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	18 succeed	advcl
21	upon	upon	ADP	_	22 something	case
22	something	something	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Ind	20 hitting	obl
23	profitable	profitable	ADJ	Degree=Pos	22 something	amod
24	before	before	SCONJ	_	28 passed	mark
25	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 days	amod
26	days	day	NOUN	Number=Plur	28 passed	nsubj:pass
27	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	28 passed	aux
28	passed	pass	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	20 hitting	advcl
29	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 join	punct
30	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 join	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	join	future	we	company		vn mix-22.1-2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent company=Patient
2	is a	future	company	bad luck	indeed property	tree rules
3	not succeed a condition, not said to happen	can	we			vn succeed-74-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	hit	gerund	we not said here		upon something	vn contiguous_location-47.8-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
5	pass	present · perfect · passive		many days		vn escape-51.1-1-3 «NP V NP»: subject=Trajectory

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 Lama’s Servant., sentence 31

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 31