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Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 58

So we made a bargain that we would ask the first three living things we met whether or no they believed that there is such a thing as good faith.

Who acts: we, bargain, eyes, thing · What happens: make, ask, live, meet, believe, be · To what, where: bargain, first three living things · 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 (we, bargain, eyes, 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

advmodnsubjdetobjnsubjnsubjauxacl:relcldetamodnummodamodobjnsubjacl:relclmarkfixeddiscoursensubjadvclmarkexplccompdet:predetdetnsubjcaseamodnmodpunctrootSoADVwePRONmadeVERBaDETbargainNOUNthatPRONwePRONwouldAUXaskVERBtheDETfirstADJthreeNUMlivingVERBthingsNOUNwePRONmetVERBwhetherSCONJorCCONJnoINTJtheyPRONbelievedVERBthatSCONJtherePRONisVERBsuchDETaDETthingNOUNasADPgoodADJfaithNOUN.PUNCT
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
#wordlemmaUPOSfeaturesheadrelation
1SosoADV_3 madeadvmod
2wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs3 madensubj
3mademakeVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Finrootroot
4aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art5 bargaindet
5bargainbargainNOUNNumber=Sing3 madeobj
6thatthatPRONPronType=Rel9 asknsubj
7wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs9 asknsubj
8wouldwouldAUXVerbForm=Fin9 askaux
9askaskVERBVerbForm=Inf5 bargainacl:relcl
10thetheDETDefinite=Def PronType=Art14 thingsdet
11firstfirstADJDegree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord14 thingsamod
12threethreeNUMNumForm=Word NumType=Card14 thingsnummod
13livingliveVERBVerbForm=Ger14 thingsamod
14thingsthingNOUNNumber=Plur9 askobj
15wewePRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs16 metnsubj
16metmeetVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin14 thingsacl:relcl
17whetherwhetherSCONJExtPos=SCONJ21 believedmark
18ororCCONJ_17 whetherfixed
19nonoINTJPolarity=Neg21 believeddiscourse
20theytheyPRONCase=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs21 believednsubj
21believedbelieveVERBMood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin16 metadvcl
22thatthatSCONJ_24 ismark
23theretherePRONPronType=Dem24 isexpl
24isbeVERBMood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin21 believedccomp
25suchsuchDETPronType=Ind27 thingdet:predet
26aaDETDefinite=Ind PronType=Art27 thingdet
27thingthingNOUNNumber=Sing24 isnsubj
28asasADP_30 faithcase
29goodgoodADJDegree=Pos30 faithamod
30faithfaithNOUNNumber=Sing27 thingnmod
31..PUNCT_3 madepunct

Pragmatics

#verbtense, moodwhowhat, whomto whomwherewhenotherroles by
1makepastwea bargainvn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product
2ask speech: askwoulda bargainthe first three living thingswe nsubjvn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient
3livegerundvn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4meetpastwethe first three living things not said herevn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Co-Agent
5believepasteyes = eyevn admire-31.2 «NP V that S»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus
6bepresentsuch thing as good faiththerevn 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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