Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 29

He called out to me asking me to open the door of the hut, promising me, if I did so, that he would let me go free.

Who acts: case, I, me · What happens: call out, ask, open, promise, do, let · To what, where: me, door

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 (case, I, me), 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	He	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 called	nsubj
2	called	call	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	out	out	ADP	_	2 called	compound:prt
4	to	to	ADP	_	5 me	case
5	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 called	obl
6	asking	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	2 called	xcomp
7	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	6 asking	iobj
8	to	to	PART	_	9 open	mark
9	open	open	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 asking	xcomp
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 door	det
11	door	door	NOUN	Number=Sing	9 open	obj
12	of	of	ADP	_	14 hut	case
13	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 hut	det
14	hut	hut	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 door	nmod
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 promising	punct
16	promising	promise	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	9 open	advcl
17	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 promising	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	21 did	punct
19	if	if	SCONJ	_	21 did	mark
20	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	21 did	nsubj
21	did	do	VERB	Mood=Ind Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	9 open	advcl
22	so	so	ADV	_	21 did	advmod
23	,	,	PUNCT	_	27 let	punct
24	that	that	SCONJ	_	27 let	mark
25	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	27 let	nsubj
26	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	27 let	aux
27	let	let	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	9 open	conj
28	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	27 let	obj
29	go	go	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	27 let	xcomp
30	free	free	ADJ	Degree=Pos	29 go	xcomp
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 called	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	call out speech: assert	past	case		me		vn manner_speaking-37.3 «NP V PP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent to i=Recipient clause=Topic
2	ask speech: ask	gerund	case not said here		me		vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP whether S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
3	open not said to happen	to-infinitive	case not said here	the door of the hut			vn spatial_configuration-47.6-1 «PP.location V NP»: agent=Location door=Theme
4	promise speech: promise	gerund	case not said here		me		vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent i=Theme
5	do	past	I				vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent
6	let	would	case	me			tree rules
7	go	infinitive	me 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 29

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 29