--- title: “I hope you will not disbelieve my word,” replied the Drake very ear… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics description: “I hope you will not disbelieve my word,” replied the Drake very earnestly; “I assure you I can do all this, and even more, if you will release me.” Who acts: Drake, you, Boy, my. 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The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (Drake, you, Boy, my), 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 {#tree} ```conllu # sent_id = book:pg75000:16:27 # text = “I hope you will not disbelieve my word,” replied the Drake very earnestly; “I assure you I can do all this, and even more, if you will release me.” 1 “ " PUNCT `` _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 2 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 3 nsubj _ _ 3 hope hope VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 0 root _ _ 4 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 7 nsubj _ _ 5 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 7 aux _ _ 6 not not PART RB Polarity=Neg 7 advmod _ _ 7 disbelieve disbelieve VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 ccomp _ _ 8 my my PRON PRP$ Case=Gen|Number=Sing|Person=1|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs 9 nmod:poss _ _ 9 word word NOUN NN Number=Sing 7 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 10 , , PUNCT , _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 11 ” " PUNCT '' _ 12 punct _ _ 12 replied reply VERB VBD Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin 3 parataxis _ _ 13 the the DET DT Definite=Def|PronType=Art 14 det _ _ 14 Drake Drake PROPN NNP Number=Sing 12 obj _ _ 15 very very ADV RB _ 16 advmod _ _ 16 earnestly earnestly ADV RB _ 12 advmod _ SpaceAfter=No 17 ; ; PUNCT : _ 20 punct _ _ 18 “ " PUNCT `` _ 20 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 19 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 20 nsubj _ _ 20 assure assure VERB VBP Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin 3 conj _ _ 21 you you PRON PRP Case=Acc|Person=2|PronType=Prs 20 iobj _ _ 22 I I PRON PRP Case=Nom|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 24 nsubj _ _ 23 can can AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 24 aux _ _ 24 do do VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 20 ccomp _ _ 25 all all DET PDT PronType=Tot 26 det:predet _ _ 26 this this PRON DT Number=Sing|PronType=Dem 24 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 27 , , PUNCT , _ 30 punct _ _ 28 and and CCONJ CC _ 30 cc _ _ 29 even even ADV RB _ 30 advmod _ _ 30 more more ADJ JJR Degree=Cmp 3 conj _ SpaceAfter=No 31 , , PUNCT , _ 35 punct _ _ 32 if if SCONJ IN _ 35 mark _ _ 33 you you PRON PRP Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs 35 nsubj _ _ 34 will will AUX MD VerbForm=Fin 35 aux _ _ 35 release release VERB VB VerbForm=Inf 3 conj _ _ 36 me I PRON PRP Case=Acc|Number=Sing|Person=1|PronType=Prs 35 obj _ SpaceAfter=No 37 . . PUNCT . _ 3 punct _ SpaceAfter=No 38 ” " PUNCT '' _ 3 punct _ _ ``` ## Pragmatics {#pragmatics} | # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | **hope** *in a quote* | present | the Drake *= drake* | | | | | | vn long-32.2 «NP V S\_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | | 2 | **not** **disbelieve** *in a quote* | future | you | my word | | | | | tree rules | | 3 | **reply** *speech: assert* | past | the Drake | | | | | earnestly *property* | vn respond-113 «NP V»: agent=Agent | | 4 | **assure** *in a quote* | present | Boy | | you | | | | vn advise-37.9 «NP V NP.recipient that S»: agent=Agent you=Recipient clause=Topic | | 5 | **do** *in a quote* | can | Boy | this | | | | | vn act-114-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent this=Eventuality | | 6 | **release** *a condition, not said to happen, in a quote* | future | you | Boy | | | | | vn free-10.6.3-1 «NP V NP S\_ING»: agent=Causer i=Source | | 7 | **word** *in a quote* | | my | | | | | | nom word «communication 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. - ← previous: [sentence 26](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/26/) - next →: [sentence 28](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/28/) - ↑ back to [The Story of the Boy With the Deformed Head.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/tales/pg75000/16/)