Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 14

“This is really too bad,” replied the Deer; “after promising faithfully that you would not eat me, and after the benefit which I have conferred upon you, you should certainly keep faith with me.”

Who acts: This, Deer, you · What happens: be, reply, promise, not eat, confer, keep · To what, where: Tiger, benefit, faith · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (This, Deer, 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	“	"	PUNCT	_	6 bad	punct
2	This	this	PRON	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	6 bad	nsubj
3	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	6 bad	cop
4	really	really	ADV	_	6 bad	advmod
5	too	too	ADV	_	6 bad	advmod
6	bad	bad	ADJ	Degree=Pos	root	root
7	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 bad	punct
8	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 bad	punct
9	replied	reply	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	6 bad	parataxis
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 Deer	det
11	Deer	Deer	PROPN	Number=Sing	9 replied	nsubj
12	;	;	PUNCT	_	15 promising	punct
13	“	"	PUNCT	_	15 promising	punct
14	after	after	SCONJ	_	15 promising	mark
15	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	6 bad	parataxis
16	faithfully	faithfully	ADV	_	15 promising	advmod
17	that	that	SCONJ	_	21 eat	mark
18	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 eat	nsubj
19	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 eat	aux
20	not	not	PART	Polarity=Neg	21 eat	advmod
21	eat	eat	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	15 promising	advcl
22	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 eat	obj
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	38 keep	punct
24	and	and	CCONJ	_	38 keep	cc
25	after	after	ADP	_	27 benefit	case
26	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	27 benefit	det
27	benefit	benefit	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 keep	obl
28	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 conferred	nsubj:pass
29	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	31 conferred	nsubj
30	have	have	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	31 conferred	aux
31	conferred	confer	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	27 benefit	acl:relcl
32	upon	upon	ADP	_	33 you	case
33	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	31 conferred	obl
34	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 benefit	punct
35	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	38 keep	nsubj
36	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	38 keep	aux
37	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	38 keep	advmod
38	keep	keep	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	21 eat	conj
39	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	38 keep	obj
40	with	with	ADP	_	41 me	case
41	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	38 keep	obl
42	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 bad	punct
43	”	"	PUNCT	_	6 bad	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	when	other	roles by
1	is in a quote	present	This			bad property	tree rules
2	reply speech: assert	past	the Deer				vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	promise speech: promise in a quote	gerund				faithfully property	vn promise-37.13 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent
4	not eat in a quote	would	you	Tiger			vn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
5	confer in a quote	present · perfect · passive		the benefit		upon you; I nsubj	tree rules
6	keep in a quote	should	you	faith	after the benefit	with Tiger; certainly property	vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=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 14

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 14