Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 81

So we made a bargain that we would ask the first three living creatures we met whether or no there is such a thing as good faith in this world.

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

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), 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	So	so	ADV	_	3 made	advmod
2	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	3 made	nsubj
3	made	make	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
4	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	5 bargain	det
5	bargain	bargain	NOUN	Number=Sing	3 made	obj
6	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	9 ask	nsubj
7	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	9 ask	nsubj
8	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	9 ask	aux
9	ask	ask	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 bargain	acl:relcl
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	14 creatures	det
11	first	first	ADJ	Degree=Pos NumForm=Word NumType=Ord	14 creatures	amod
12	three	three	NUM	NumForm=Word NumType=Card	14 creatures	nummod
13	living	live	VERB	VerbForm=Ger	14 creatures	amod
14	creatures	creature	NOUN	Number=Plur	9 ask	obj
15	we	we	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 met	nsubj
16	met	meet	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	14 creatures	acl:relcl
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	_	24 thing	mark
18	or	or	CCONJ	_	21 is	cc
19	no	no	ADV	_	21 is	advmod
20	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	21 is	expl
21	is	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	24 thing	cop
22	such	such	DET	PronType=Ind	24 thing	det:predet
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 thing	det
24	thing	thing	NOUN	Number=Sing	16 met	ccomp
25	as	as	ADP	_	27 faith	case
26	good	good	ADJ	Degree=Pos	27 faith	amod
27	faith	faith	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 thing	nmod
28	in	in	ADP	_	30 world	case
29	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	30 world	det
30	world	world	NOUN	Number=Sing	27 faith	nmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	3 made	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	other	roles by
1	make	past	we	a bargain		vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent bargain=Product
2	ask speech: ask	would	a bargain	the first three living creatures	we nsubj	vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent creature=Recipient
3	live	gerund				vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
4	meet	past	we	the first three living creatures not said here		vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent creature=Co-Agent
5	is a	present	we not said here	such thing	as good faith in this world	tree rules

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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🌲 Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 81

The tree

Pragmatics

Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 81