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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 57

But no sooner was he free than he seized upon me and said that he would kill and eat me; and when I reproached him with his bad faith, he replied that he did not believe that such a thing as good faith existed.

Who acts: Tiger, I, good faith · What happens: be, seize, say, kill, eat, reproach · To what, where: me, Tiger · 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 (Tiger, I, 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

ccdetadvmodcopnsubjmarknsubjadvclcaseoblccconjmarknsubjauxccompccconjobjpunctccadvmodnsubjadvclobjcasenmod:possamodoblpunctnsubjparataxismarknsubjauxadvmodadvclmarkdet:predetdetccompmarkamodnsubjadvclpunctrootButCCONJnoDETsoonerADVwasAUXhePRONfreeADJthanSCONJhePRONseizedVERBuponADPmePRONandCCONJsaidVERBthatSCONJhePRONwouldAUXkillVERBandCCONJeatVERBmePRON;PUNCTandCCONJwhenADVIPRONreproachedVERBhimPRONwithADPhisPRONbadADJfaithNOUN,PUNCThePRONrepliedVERBthatSCONJhePRONdidAUXnotPARTbelieveVERBthatSCONJsuchDETaDETthingNOUNasSCONJgoodADJfaithNOUNexistedVERB.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1ButbutCCONJ_6 freecc
2nonoDETPronType=Neg3 soonerdet
3soonersoonADVDegree=Cmp6 freeadvmod
4wasbeAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 freecop
5hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs6 freensubj
6freefreeADJDegree=Posrootroot
7thanthanSCONJ_9 seizedmark
8hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs9 seizednsubj
9seizedseizeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 freeadvcl
10uponuponADP_11 mecase
11meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs9 seizedobl
12andandCCONJ_13 saidcc
13saidsayVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin9 seizedconj
14thatthatSCONJ_17 killmark
15hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs17 killnsubj
16wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin17 killaux
17killkillVERBVerbForm=Inf13 saidccomp
18andandCCONJ_19 eatcc
19eateatVERBVerbForm=Inf17 killconj
20meIPRONCase=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs19 eatobj
21;;PUNCT_33 repliedpunct
22andandCCONJ_33 repliedcc
23whenwhenADVPronType=Int25 reproachedadvmod
24IIPRONCase=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs25 reproachednsubj
25reproachedreproachVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin33 repliedadvcl
26himhePRONCase=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs25 reproachedobj
27withwithADP_30 faithcase
28hishisPRONCase=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs30 faithnmod:poss
29badbadADJDegree=Pos30 faithamod
30faithfaithNOUNNumber=Sing25 reproachedobl
31,,PUNCT_25 reproachedpunct
32hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs33 repliednsubj
33repliedreplyVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin6 freeparataxis
34thatthatSCONJ_38 believemark
35hehePRONCase=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs38 believensubj
36diddoAUXMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin38 believeaux
37notnotPARTPolarity=Neg38 believeadvmod
38believebelieveVERBVerbForm=Inf33 repliedadvcl
39thatthatSCONJ_42 thingmark
40suchsuchDETPronType=Ind42 thingdet:predet
41aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art42 thingdet
42thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing38 believeccomp
43asasSCONJ_46 existedmark
44goodgoodADJDegree=Pos45 faithamod
45faithfaithNOUNNumber=Sing46 existednsubj
46existedexistVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin42 thingadvcl
47..PUNCT_6 freepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1ispastTigerfree, soon propertytree rules
2seizepastTigerupon mevn obtain-13.5.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
3say speech: assertpastTiger not said herevn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic
4killwouldTigervn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer
5eatinfinitiveTiger not said heremevn eat-39.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Patient
6reproachpastITigerwith Tiger's bad faithvn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme
7reply speech: assertpastTigervn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent
8not believepast · do-supportTigersuch thing ccompvn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer
9existpastgood faithvn 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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