Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 60
Now, will you please give us your opinion on the matter.”
Who acts: you, your · What happens: give, opine · To what, where: opinion, us, matter
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, your), 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 | Now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 6 give | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 Now | punct |
| 3 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 give | aux |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 give | nsubj |
| 5 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 6 give | discourse |
| 6 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 give | iobj |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 opinion | nmod:poss |
| 9 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obj |
| 10 | on | on | ADP | _ | 12 matter | case |
| 11 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 12 matter | det |
| 12 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 give | obl |
| 13 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
| 14 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 give | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | give | future | you | your opinion | us | the matter | now | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP NP PP.asset»: agent=Agent we=Recipient opinion=Theme on matter=Asset | |
| 2 | opine | your | nom opinion «cognition transitive»: poss=agent |
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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