Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 41

When we come into the room where the corpse lies I will address it, and ask whether I am not the long-lost son, whereupon you must reply that I am.

Who acts: we, corpse, I, you · What happens: come, lie, address, ask, lose, not be · To what, where: room, corpse, long lost son · Speech: someone speaks here

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, corpse, I, you), 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	When	when	ADV	PronType=Int	3 come	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 come	nsubj
3	come	come	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 address	advcl
4	into	into	ADP	_	6 room	case
5	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	6 room	det
6	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 come	obl
7	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	10 lies	advmod
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 corpse	det
9	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	10 lies	nsubj
10	lies	lie	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 room	acl:relcl
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 address	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 address	aux
13	address	address	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
14	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 address	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 ask	punct
16	and	and	CCONJ	_	17 ask	cc
17	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 address	conj
18	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	26 son	mark
19	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	26 son	nsubj
20	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	26 son	cop
21	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	26 son	advmod
22	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 son	det
23	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	26 son	amod
24	-	-	PUNCT	_	23 long	punct
25	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	26 son	amod
26	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 ask	ccomp
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 reply	punct
28	whereupon	whereupon	ADV	PronType=Int	31 reply	advmod
29	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 reply	nsubj
30	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 reply	aux
31	reply	reply	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 son	parataxis
32	that	that	SCONJ	_	34 am	mark
33	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	34 am	nsubj
34	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 reply	advcl
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	13 address	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	other	roles by
1	come	present	we		the room		vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
2	lie	present	the corpse				vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	address	future	I	corpse			vn illustrate-25.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent it=Destination
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	I not said here				vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=Agent
5	lose	participle					vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	not is a	present	I	the long lost son			tree rules
7	reply speech: assert	must	you			whereupon property	vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=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, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 41

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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 41