Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 42

What we would suggest to you is that you should build a strong dam all down the river bank so as to ensure that the water cannot overflow into our nests.

Who acts: we, you, water · What happens: suggest, be, ensure, not overflow · To what, where: you, nests · 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 (we, you, water), 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	What	what	PRON	PronType=Int	4 suggest	obj
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 suggest	nsubj
3	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	4 suggest	aux
4	suggest	suggest	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	root	root
5	to	to	ADP	_	6 you	case
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 build	obl
7	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	11 build	cop
8	that	that	SCONJ	_	11 build	mark
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 build	nsubj
10	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 build	aux
11	build	build	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 suggest	ccomp
12	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	14 dam	det
13	strong	strong	ADJ	Degree=Pos	14 dam	amod
14	dam	dam	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 build	obj
15	all	all	ADV	_	19 bank	advmod
16	down	down	ADP	_	19 bank	case
17	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	19 bank	det
18	river	river	NOUN	Number=Sing	19 bank	compound
19	bank	bank	NOUN	Number=Sing	14 dam	nmod
20	so	so	ADV	_	23 ensure	advmod
21	as	as	SCONJ	_	23 ensure	mark
22	to	to	PART	_	23 ensure	mark
23	ensure	ensure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 build	advcl
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	29 overflow	mark
25	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	26 water	det
26	water	water	NOUN	Number=Sing	29 overflow	nsubj
27	can	can	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 overflow	aux
28	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	29 overflow	advmod
29	overflow	overflow	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	23 ensure	ccomp
30	into	into	ADP	_	32 nests	case
31	our	our	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	32 nests	nmod:poss
32	nests	nest	NOUN	Number=Plur	29 overflow	obl
33	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 suggest	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	to whom	where	other	roles by
1	suggest speech: suggest	would	we			What obj	tree rules
2	is	should · present	you	you		a strong dam obj; build property	tree rules
3	ensure	to-infinitive	you not said here				vn ensure-99 «NP V that S»: agent=Precondition clause=Theme
4	not overflow	can	the water		our nests		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 Country of the Mice., sentence 42

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Country of the Mice., sentence 42