Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 83
We have already consulted two persons in the matter, and they are both of opinion that there is no such thing as good faith.
Who acts: We, creatures, such thing · What happens: consult, be · To what, where: two persons, 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 (We, creatures, such 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
The words, one row each (CoNLL-U)
| # | word | lemma | UPOS | features | head | relation |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | We | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 consulted | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 consulted | aux |
| 3 | already | already | ADV | _ | 4 consulted | advmod |
| 4 | consulted | consult | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 5 | two | two | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 6 persons | nummod |
| 6 | persons | person | NOUN | Number=Plur | 4 consulted | obj |
| 7 | in | in | ADP | _ | 9 matter | case |
| 8 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 9 matter | det |
| 9 | matter | matter | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consulted | obl |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 opinion | punct |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 opinion | cc |
| 12 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 16 opinion | nsubj |
| 13 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 opinion | cop |
| 14 | both | both | DET | PronType=Tot | 16 opinion | det |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 16 opinion | case |
| 16 | opinion | opinion | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 consulted | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 19 is | mark |
| 18 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 19 is | expl |
| 19 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 opinion | advcl |
| 20 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 22 thing | det |
| 21 | such | such | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 thing | amod |
| 22 | thing | thing | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 is | nsubj |
| 23 | as | as | ADP | _ | 25 faith | case |
| 24 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 25 faith | amod |
| 25 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 thing | nmod |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 consulted | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | consult | present · perfect | We | two persons | the matter | vn assessment-34.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent person=Theme | |||
| 2 | is | present | creatures = creature | of both opinion | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | be | present | no such thing as good faith | there | vn 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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