Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 46
No, I am bound to say that my experience of life leads me to believe that there is no such thing as good faith in this world.”
Who acts: experience, me, such thing, my · What happens: bind, say, lead, believe, be, experience · To what, where: I, me, life · 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 (experience, me, such thing, 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 | No | no | INTJ | Polarity=Neg | 5 bound | discourse |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 No | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 bound | nsubj |
| 4 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 bound | aux:pass |
| 5 | bound | bind | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 6 | to | to | PART | _ | 7 say | mark |
| 7 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 bound | xcomp |
| 8 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 13 leads | mark |
| 9 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 10 experience | nmod:poss |
| 10 | experience | experience | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 leads | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 12 life | case |
| 12 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 experience | nmod |
| 13 | leads | lead | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 7 say | ccomp |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 leads | obj |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 believe | mark |
| 16 | believe | believe | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 leads | xcomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 is | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 believe | ccomp |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 thing | det |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thing | amod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 is | nsubj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 faith | case |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 faith | amod |
| 25 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thing | nmod |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 world | case |
| 27 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 28 world | det |
| 28 | world | world | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 faith | nmod |
| 29 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 bound | punct |
| 30 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 bound | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | bind | present · passive | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | to-infinitive | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||||
| 3 | lead | present | my experience of life | me | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent i=Patient clause=Result | ||||
| 4 | believe | to-infinitive | me not said here | vn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 5 | be | present | no such thing as good faith in this world | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | experience | 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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