Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 40

She will probably disbelieve my story, and I will propose that we should consult the corpse of her father on the matter.

Who acts: body, I, we · What happens: disbelieve, propose, consult · To what, where: story, corpse, matter

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 (body, I, we), 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	She	she	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 disbelieve	nsubj
2	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 disbelieve	aux
3	probably	probably	ADV	_	4 disbelieve	advmod
4	disbelieve	disbelieve	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 story	nmod:poss
6	story	story	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 disbelieve	obj
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 propose	punct
8	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 propose	cc
9	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	11 propose	nsubj
10	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 propose	aux
11	propose	propose	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 disbelieve	parataxis
12	that	that	SCONJ	_	15 consult	mark
13	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	15 consult	nsubj
14	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	15 consult	aux
15	consult	consult	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 propose	ccomp
16	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 corpse	det
17	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 consult	obj
18	of	of	ADP	_	20 father	case
19	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 father	nmod:poss
20	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 corpse	nmod
21	on	on	ADP	_	23 matter	case
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	23 matter	det
23	matter	matter	NOUN	Number=Sing	15 consult	obl
24	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 disbelieve	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	disbelieve	future	body	my story		probably property	tree rules
2	propose	future	I				vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
3	consult	should	we	the corpse of body's father	the matter		vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent corpse=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 Lama’s Servant., sentence 40

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 40