Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 36
“I am much interested in your story, Sister Deer, and would gladly help you if I could; but I am bound to answer you honestly in accordance with my own experience of life.
Who acts: branches, my · What happens: be, help, answer, experience · To what, where: story, you, accordance, life
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 (branches, my), 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 | _ | 5 interested | punct |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 interested | nsubj |
| 3 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 interested | cop |
| 4 | much | much | ADV | _ | 5 interested | advmod |
| 5 | interested | interested | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 6 | in | in | ADP | _ | 8 story | case |
| 7 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 story | nmod:poss |
| 8 | story | story | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 interested | obl |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 Sister | punct |
| 10 | Sister | Sister | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 story | appos |
| 11 | Deer | Deer | PROPN | Number=Sing | 10 Sister | flat |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 help | punct |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 help | cc |
| 14 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | aux |
| 15 | gladly | gladly | ADV | _ | 16 help | advmod |
| 16 | help | help | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 interested | conj |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 16 help | obj |
| 18 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 20 could | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 could | nsubj |
| 20 | could | could | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 help | advcl |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 25 bound | punct |
| 22 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 25 bound | cc |
| 23 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 25 bound | nsubj |
| 24 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 25 bound | cop |
| 25 | bound | bound | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 interested | conj |
| 26 | to | to | PART | _ | 27 answer | mark |
| 27 | answer | answer | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 25 bound | xcomp |
| 28 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 27 answer | obj |
| 29 | honestly | honestly | ADV | _ | 27 answer | advmod |
| 30 | in | in | ADP | _ | 31 accordance | case |
| 31 | accordance | accordance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 answer | obl |
| 32 | with | with | ADP | _ | 35 experience | case |
| 33 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 35 experience | nmod:poss |
| 34 | own | own | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 35 experience | amod |
| 35 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 answer | obl |
| 36 | of | of | ADP | _ | 37 life | case |
| 37 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 experience | nmod |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 interested | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is in a quote | present | branches = branch | your story | interested property | tree rules | |||
| 2 | help in a quote | would | branches = branch not said here | you | gladly property | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary | |||
| 3 | is in a quote | present | branches = branch | bound property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | answer speech: assert in a quote | to-infinitive | branches = branch not said here | you | accordance | with my own experience of life; honestly property | vn reciprocate-112-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality | ||
| 5 | experience in a quote | my | life | nom experience «cognition transitive»: poss=agent of=patient |
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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