Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 34
Will you please give us an opinion as to whether such a thing as good faith exists or not.”
Who acts: you, good faith · What happens: give, exist · To what, where: opinion, us
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 (you, good faith), 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 | Will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | aux |
| 2 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 give | nsubj |
| 3 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 4 give | discourse |
| 4 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 give | iobj |
| 6 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 opinion | det |
| 7 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obj |
| 8 | as | as | ADP | ExtPos=ADP | 13 thing | case |
| 9 | to | to | ADP | _ | 8 as | fixed |
| 10 | whether | whether | SCONJ | _ | 13 thing | mark |
| 11 | such | such | DET | PronType=Ind | 13 thing | det:predet |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 thing | det |
| 13 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 give | obl |
| 14 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 17 exists | mark |
| 15 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 faith | amod |
| 16 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 exists | nsubj |
| 17 | exists | exist | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 give | advcl |
| 18 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 19 not | cc |
| 19 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 exists | conj |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | you | a opinion | us | as such thing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient opinion=Theme | ||
| 2 | exist | present | good faith | vn 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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