Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 20
We will ask the first three living things we meet whether or no there is such a thing as good faith.
Who acts: We · What happens: ask, live, meet · To what, where: first three living things
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 (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 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 ask | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 ask | aux |
| 3 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 8 things | det |
| 5 | first | first | ADJ | Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 8 things | amod |
| 6 | three | three | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 8 things | nummod |
| 7 | living | live | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 8 things | amod |
| 8 | things | thing | NOUN | Number=Plur | 3 ask | obj |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 meet | nsubj |
| 10 | meet | meet | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 things | acl:relcl |
| 11 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 10 meet | advmod |
| 12 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 11 whether | fixed |
| 13 | no | no | ADV | _ | 15 is | advmod |
| 14 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 15 is | expl |
| 15 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 whether | fixed |
| 16 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 18 thing | det:predet |
| 17 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 thing | det |
| 18 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 is | nsubj |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 21 faith | case |
| 20 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 faith | amod |
| 21 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 thing | nmod |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 ask | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | ask speech: ask | future | We | the first three living things | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | live | gerund | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||||
| 3 | meet | present | we | the first three living things not said here | there | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Co-Agent |
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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