Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 10

I promise you faithfully that if you will release me I will let you go free.”

Who acts: I, you · What happens: promise, release, let, go · To what, where: you, me

This is a sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith.. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, you), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 promise	nsubj
2	promise	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	2 promise	iobj
4	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	2 promise	advmod
5	that	that	SCONJ	_	13 let	mark
6	if	if	SCONJ	_	9 release	mark
7	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	9 release	nsubj
8	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 release	aux
9	release	release	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	advcl
10	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 release	obj
11	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	13 let	nsubj
12	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	13 let	aux
13	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promise	advcl
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 let	obj
15	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	13 let	xcomp
16	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	15 go	xcomp
17	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct
18	”	"	PUNCT	_	2 promise	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	present	I		you	faithfully property	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent you=Theme
2	release a condition, not said to happen	future	you	me			vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source
3	let	future	I	you			tree rules
4	go	infinitive	you not said here			free property	vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme

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 Good Faith., sentence 10

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 10