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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 31

No sooner was he released than he seized upon me and threatened to kill and eat me; and when I reproached him of breaking his faith, he said he did not believe that there was such a thing as good faith in the world.

Who acts: case, I, thing · What happens: release, seize, threaten, kill, eat, reproach · To what, where: case, me, 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 (case, I, thing), 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

detadvmodaux:passnsubjmarknsubjadvclcaseoblccconjmarkxcompccconjobjpunctccadvmodnsubjadvclobjmarkadvclnmod:possobjpunctnsubjconjnsubjauxadvmodccompmarkexplccompdet:predetdetnsubjcaseamodnmodcasedetnmodpunctrootNoDETsoonerADVwasAUXhePRONreleasedVERBthanSCONJhePRONseizedVERBuponADPmePRONandCCONJthreatenedVERBtoPARTkillVERBandCCONJeatVERBmePRON;PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVIPRONreproachedVERBhimPRONofSCONJbreakingVERBhisPRONfaithNOUN,PUNCThePRONsaidVERBhePRONdidAUXnotPARTbelieveVERBthatSCONJtherePRONwasVERBsuchDETaDETthingNOUNasADPgoodADJfaithNOUNinADPtheDETworldNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1NonoDETPronType=Neg2 soonerdet
2soonersoonADVDegree=Cmp5 releasedadvmod
3wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 releasedaux:pass
4hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs5 releasednsubj
5releasedreleaseVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Passrootroot
6thanthanSCONJ_8 seizedmark
7hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs8 seizednsubj
8seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 releasedadvcl
9uponuponADP_10 mecase
10meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs8 seizedobl
11andandCCONJ_12 threatenedcc
12threatenedthreatenVERBTense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass8 seizedconj
13totoPART_14 killmark
14killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf12 threatenedxcomp
15andandCCONJ_16 eatcc
16eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf14 killconj
17meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs16 eatobj
18;;PUNCT_30 saidpunct
19andandCCONJ_30 saidcc
20whenwhenADVPronType=Int22 reproachedadvmod
21IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs22 reproachednsubj
22reproachedreproachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin30 saidadvcl
23himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs22 reproachedobj
24ofofSCONJ_25 breakingmark
25breakingbreakVERBTense=Pres VerbForm=Part22 reproachedadvcl
26hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs27 faithnmod:poss
27faithfaithNOUNNumber=Sing25 breakingobj
28,,PUNCT_22 reproachedpunct
29hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs30 saidnsubj
30saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin5 releasedconj
31hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs34 believensubj
32diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 believeaux
33notnotPARTPolarity=Neg34 believeadvmod
34believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf30 saidccomp
35thatthatSCONJ_37 wasmark
36theretherePRONPronType=Dem37 wasexpl
37wasbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin34 believeccomp
38suchsuchDETPronType=Ind40 thingdet:predet
39aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art40 thingdet
40thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing37 wasnsubj
41asasADP_43 faithcase
42goodgoodADJDegree=Pos43 faithamod
43faithfaithNOUNNumber=Sing40 thingnmod
44ininADP_46 worldcase
45thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art46 worlddet
46worldworldNOUNNumber=Sing43 faithnmod
47..PUNCT_5 releasedpunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1releasepast · passivecasesoon propertyvn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S_ING»: subject=Source
2seizepastcaseupon mevn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3threatenparticiplecase not said heretree rules
4kill not said to happento-infinitivecase not said herevn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5eatinfinitivecase not said heremevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6reproachpastIcasevn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7breakgerundI not said herecase's faithvn hurt-40.8.3-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer faith=Patient
8say speech: assertpastcasevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
9not believepast · do-supportcasevn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
10bepastsuch thing as good faith in the worldtherevn exist-47.1 «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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