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title: Will you please give us an opinion as to whether such a thing as goo… — Folk tales from Tibet · tree and pragmatics
description: Will you please give us an opinion as to whether such a thing as good faith exists or not.” Who acts: you, good faith. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 34

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Will you please give us an opinion as to whether such a thing as good faith exists or not.”

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**Who acts:** you, good faith · **What happens:** give, exist · **To what, where:** opinion, us

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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 (you, good faith), 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:pg75000:4:34
# text = Will you please give us an opinion as to whether such a thing as good faith exists or not.”
1	Will	will	AUX	MD	VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
2	you	you	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Person=2|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
3	please	please	INTJ	UH	_	4	discourse	_	_
4	give	give	VERB	VB	VerbForm=Inf	0	root	_	_
5	us	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Acc|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	iobj	_	_
6	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	7	det	_	_
7	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obj	_	_
8	as	as	ADP	IN	ExtPos=ADP	13	case	_	_
9	to	to	ADP	IN	_	8	fixed	_	_
10	whether	whether	SCONJ	IN	_	13	mark	_	_
11	such	such	DET	PDT	PronType=Ind	13	det:predet	_	_
12	a	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	13	det	_	_
13	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	_
14	as	as	SCONJ	IN	_	17	mark	_	_
15	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	16	amod	_	_
16	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	17	nsubj	_	_
17	exists	exist	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	advcl	_	_
18	or	or	CCONJ	CC	_	19	cc	_	_
19	not	not	PART	RB	Polarity=Neg	17	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
20	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	SpaceAfter=No
21	”	"	PUNCT	''	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | **give** | future | you | a opinion | us |  |  | as such thing | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent we=Recipient opinion=Theme |
| 2 | **exist** | present | good faith |  |  |  |  |  | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme |

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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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