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title: So we made a bargain that we would ask the first three living things… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: So we made a bargain that we would ask the first three living things we met whether or no there is such a thing as good faith in this world. Who acts: we, bargain. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., with its dependency tree and
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 32

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

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**Who acts:** we, bargain · **What happens:** make, ask, live, meet · **To what, where:** bargain, first three living things

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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.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg75000:4:32
# text = So we made a bargain that we would ask the first three living things we met whether or no there is such a thing as good faith in this world.
1	So	so	ADV	RB	_	3	advmod	_	_
2	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	3	nsubj	_	_
3	made	make	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	0	root	_	_
4	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	5	det	_	_
5	bargain	bargain	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	3	obj	_	_
6	that	that	PRON	WDT	PronType=Rel	9	nsubj	_	_
7	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	9	nsubj	_	_
8	would	would	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	9	aux	_	_
9	ask	ask	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	5	acl:relcl	_	_
10	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	first	first	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos|NumForm=Word|NumType=Ord	14	amod	_	_
12	three	three	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	14	nummod	_	_
13	living	live	VERB	VBG	VerbForm=Ger	14	amod	_	_
14	things	thing	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	9	obj	_	_
15	we	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
16	met	meet	VERB	VBD	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Past|VerbForm=Fin	14	acl:relcl	_	_
17	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	16	obl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	17	fixed	_	_
19	no	no	ADV	RB	_	21	advmod	_	_
20	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	21	expl	_	_
21	is	be	AUX	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	17	fixed	_	_
22	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	24	det:predet	_	_
23	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	24	det	_	_
24	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	21	nsubj	_	_
25	as	as	ADP	IN	_	27	case	_	_
26	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	27	amod	_	_
27	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	24	nmod	_	_
28	in	in	ADP	IN	_	30	case	_	_
29	this	this	DET	DT	Number=Sing|PronType=Dem	30	det	_	_
30	world	world	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	27	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
31	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	3	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | 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 things |  |  |  | we *nsubj* | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent thing=Recipient |
| 3 | **live** | gerund |  |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |
| 4 | **meet** | past | we | the first three living things *not said here* |  |  |  |  | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent thing=Co-Agent |

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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.

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**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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