Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 29

We are threatened with invasion by a foreign army, outnumbering mine by many thousands, and all the men I can muster will not be sufficient to enable me to repel the enemy.

Who acts: foreign army, I, men, me · What happens: threaten, outnumber, muster, not be, enable, repel · To what, where: We, mine, men, me, enemy

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Country of the Mice.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (foreign army, I, men, me), 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	We	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 threatened	nsubj
2	are	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	3 threatened	aux:pass
3	threatened	threaten	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
4	with	with	ADP	_	5 invasion	case
5	invasion	invasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threatened	obl
6	by	by	ADP	_	9 army	case
7	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	9 army	det
8	foreign	foreign	ADJ	Degree=Pos	9 army	amod
9	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 threatened	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 outnumbering	punct
11	outnumbering	outnumber	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	3 threatened	advcl
12	mine	my	PRON	Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 outnumbering	obj
13	by	by	ADP	_	15 thousands	case
14	many	many	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 thousands	amod
15	thousands	thousand	NOUN	Number=Plur	11 outnumbering	obl
16	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 sufficient	punct
17	and	and	CCONJ	_	27 sufficient	cc
18	all	all	DET	PronType=Tot	20 men	det:predet
19	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 men	det
20	men	man	NOUN	Number=Plur	27 sufficient	nsubj
21	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	23 muster	nsubj
22	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	23 muster	aux
23	muster	muster	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	20 men	acl:relcl
24	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 sufficient	aux
25	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	27 sufficient	advmod
26	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	27 sufficient	cop
27	sufficient	sufficient	ADJ	Degree=Pos	3 threatened	conj
28	to	to	PART	_	29 enable	mark
29	enable	enable	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 sufficient	xcomp
30	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	29 enable	obj
31	to	to	PART	_	32 repel	mark
32	repel	repel	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	29 enable	xcomp
33	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	34 enemy	det
34	enemy	enemy	NOUN	Number=Sing	32 repel	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 threatened	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	threaten	present · passive	a foreign army	We	with invasion	vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus subject=Experiencer
2	outnumber	gerund	a foreign army not said here	mine	by many thousands	vn exceed-90 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot my=Theme
3	muster	can	I	all men not said here		tree rules
4	not is	future	all men		sufficient property	tree rules
5	enable	to-infinitive	all men not said here	me		tree rules
6	repel	to-infinitive	me not said here	the enemy		vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus enemy=Experiencer

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 Country of the Mice., sentence 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 29