Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 33
All we ask you now is to trust us again, and if you will undertake to do one or two things which we ask of you, we on our part will undertake to rid you of the invading army.”
Who acts: All, you, we · What happens: ask, be, undertake, do, rid, invade · To what, where: you, one things · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (All, you, 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | obj |
| 5 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 3 ask | advmod |
| 6 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 trust | cop |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 trust | mark |
| 8 | trust | trust | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | ccomp |
| 9 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 8 trust | obj |
| 10 | again | again | ADV | _ | 8 trust | advmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 undertake | punct |
| 12 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 undertake | cc |
| 13 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 16 undertake | mark |
| 14 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 undertake | nsubj |
| 15 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 undertake | aux |
| 16 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 ask | ccomp |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 do | mark |
| 18 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 undertake | xcomp |
| 19 | one | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 22 things | nummod |
| 20 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 21 two | cc |
| 21 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 19 one | conj |
| 22 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 18 do | obj |
| 23 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 25 ask | obj |
| 24 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 ask | nsubj |
| 25 | ask | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 22 things | acl:relcl |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 27 you | case |
| 27 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 25 ask | obl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 undertake | punct |
| 29 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 undertake | nsubj |
| 30 | on | on | ADP | _ | 32 part | case |
| 31 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 32 part | nmod:poss |
| 32 | part | part | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 we | nmod |
| 33 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 undertake | aux |
| 34 | undertake | undertake | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 undertake | conj |
| 35 | to | to | PART | _ | 36 rid | mark |
| 36 | rid | rid | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 undertake | xcomp |
| 37 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 36 rid | obj |
| 38 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 army | case |
| 39 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 41 army | det |
| 40 | invading | invade | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 41 army | amod |
| 41 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 rid | obl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
| 43 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | present | All | you | now | we nsubj | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 2 | is not said to happen | present | again | us obj; trust property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | undertake a condition, not said to happen | future | you | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | one things | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Eventuality | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | present | we | one things | of you | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent which=Recipient | |||
| 6 | undertake | future | we | vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality | |||||
| 7 | rid | to-infinitive | we not said here | you | of the invading army | vn deprive-10.6.2 «NP V NP PP.theme»: agent=Agent you=Source of army=Theme | |||
| 8 | invade | gerund | 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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