Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 51

Let us, however, go into the room where my father’s corpse is lying, and ask it whether or no I am his long-lost son.”

Who acts: you, corpse, I · What happens: let, go, lie, ask, lose, be · To what, where: us, 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 (you, corpse, I), 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	Let	let	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	root	root
2	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	1 Let	obj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 go	punct
4	however	however	ADV	_	6 go	advmod
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 however	punct
6	go	go	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
7	into	into	ADP	_	9 room	case
8	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	9 room	det
9	room	room	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 go	obl
10	where	where	ADV	PronType=Rel	16 lying	advmod
11	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 father	nmod:poss
12	father	father	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 corpse	nmod:poss
13	’s	's	PART	_	12 father	case
14	corpse	corpse	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 lying	nsubj
15	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	16 lying	aux
16	lying	lie	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 room	acl:relcl
17	,	,	PUNCT	_	19 ask	punct
18	and	and	CCONJ	_	19 ask	cc
19	ask	ask	VERB	Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin	1 Let	conj
20	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	19 ask	obj
21	whether	whether	SCONJ	ExtPos=SCONJ	30 son	mark
22	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 whether	fixed
23	no	no	INTJ	Polarity=Neg	21 whether	discourse
24	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	30 son	nsubj
25	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	30 son	cop
26	his	his	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	30 son	nmod:poss
27	long	long	ADJ	Degree=Pos	30 son	amod
28	-	-	PUNCT	_	27 long	punct
29	lost	lose	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	30 son	amod
30	son	son	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 ask	ccomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	1 Let	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	let	imperative	you not said here	us				vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Theme
2	go	infinitive	you not said here			the room	however property	vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into room=Initial_Location
3	lie	present · progressive	my father's corpse					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
4	ask speech: ask	infinitive	you not said here		corpse			vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Recipient
5	lose	participle						vn succeed-74-3-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	is a	present	I	father's long lost son			father nmod:poss	tree rules

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 51

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Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of the Lama’s Servant., sentence 51