Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 37

If you will undertake to do this, we on our side will undertake to stave off the threatened invasion and to put the opposing army into a state of confusion and panic.

Who acts: you, we · What happens: undertake, do, stave off, put, oppose · To what, where: this, threatened invasion, opposing army, state

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 (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	If	if	SCONJ	_	4 undertake	mark
2	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	4 undertake	nsubj
3	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 undertake	aux
4	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 undertake	advcl
5	to	to	PART	_	6 do	mark
6	do	do	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 undertake	xcomp
7	this	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 do	obj
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 undertake	punct
9	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	14 undertake	nsubj
10	on	on	ADP	_	12 side	case
11	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	12 side	nmod:poss
12	side	side	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 we	nmod
13	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	14 undertake	aux
14	undertake	undertake	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
15	to	to	PART	_	16 stave	mark
16	stave	stave	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	14 undertake	xcomp
17	off	off	ADP	_	16 stave	compound:prt
18	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	20 invasion	det
19	threatened	threatened	ADJ	Degree=Pos	20 invasion	amod
20	invasion	invasion	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 stave	obj
21	and	and	CCONJ	_	23 put	cc
22	to	to	PART	_	23 put	mark
23	put	put	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 stave	conj
24	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 army	det
25	opposing	oppose	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	26 army	amod
26	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obj
27	into	into	ADP	_	29 state	case
28	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	29 state	det
29	state	state	NOUN	Number=Sing	23 put	obl
30	of	of	ADP	_	31 confusion	case
31	confusion	confusion	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 state	nmod
32	and	and	CCONJ	_	33 panic	cc
33	panic	panic	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 confusion	conj
34	.	.	PUNCT	_	14 undertake	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	roles by
1	undertake a condition, not said to happen	future	you			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
2	do	to-infinitive	you not said here	this		vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality
3	undertake	future	we			vn begin-55.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Eventuality
4	stave off	to-infinitive	we not said here	the threatened invasion		tree rules
5	put	to-infinitive	we not said here	the opposing army	a state of confusion and panic	vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent army=Goal
6	oppose	gerund				vn amalgamate-22.2-3 «NP V ADVP-Middle»: agent=Patient

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 37

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 37