Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 70
Can that be called keeping faith with its mother?
What happens: call, keep · To what, where: that, faith · 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: 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 | Can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 called | aux |
| 2 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 4 called | nsubj:pass |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 4 called | aux:pass |
| 4 | called | call | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 5 | keeping | keep | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 4 called | xcomp |
| 6 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeping | obj |
| 7 | with | with | ADP | _ | 9 mother | case |
| 8 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 mother | nmod:poss |
| 9 | mother | mother | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 keeping | obl |
| 10 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 4 called | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | call | can · passive | that | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | keep | gerund | faith | with power's mother | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent faith=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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