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description: 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. A sentence of «Folk tales from Tibet» by William Frederick Travers, Sir O'Connor, The Story of Good Faith., with its dependency tree and t
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# Folk tales from Tibet, The Story of Good Faith., sentence 83

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We have already consulted two persons in the matter, and they are both of opinion that there is no such thing as good faith.

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**Who acts:** We, creatures, such thing · **What happens:** consult, be · **To what, where:** two persons, matter

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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, creatures, such thing), 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:pg75000:4:83
# text = We have already consulted two persons in the matter, and they are both of opinion that there is no such thing as good faith.
1	We	we	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=1|PronType=Prs	4	nsubj	_	_
2	have	have	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=1|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	4	aux	_	_
3	already	already	ADV	RB	_	4	advmod	_	_
4	consulted	consult	VERB	VBN	Tense=Past|VerbForm=Part	0	root	_	_
5	two	two	NUM	CD	NumForm=Word|NumType=Card	6	nummod	_	_
6	persons	person	NOUN	NNS	Number=Plur	4	obj	_	_
7	in	in	ADP	IN	_	9	case	_	_
8	the	the	DET	DT	Definite=Def|PronType=Art	9	det	_	_
9	matter	matter	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	obl	_	SpaceAfter=No
10	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	16	punct	_	_
11	and	and	CCONJ	CC	_	16	cc	_	_
12	they	they	PRON	PRP	Case=Nom|Number=Plur|Person=3|PronType=Prs	16	nsubj	_	_
13	are	be	AUX	VBP	Mood=Ind|Number=Plur|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	cop	_	_
14	both	both	DET	DT	PronType=Tot	16	det	_	_
15	of	of	ADP	IN	_	16	case	_	_
16	opinion	opinion	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	4	parataxis	_	_
17	that	that	SCONJ	IN	_	19	mark	_	_
18	there	there	PRON	EX	PronType=Dem	19	expl	_	_
19	is	be	VERB	VBZ	Mood=Ind|Number=Sing|Person=3|Tense=Pres|VerbForm=Fin	16	advcl	_	_
20	no	no	DET	DT	PronType=Neg	22	det	_	_
21	such	such	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	22	amod	_	_
22	thing	thing	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	19	nsubj	_	_
23	as	as	ADP	IN	_	25	case	_	_
24	good	good	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	25	amod	_	_
25	faith	faith	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	22	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
26	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	4	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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| # | 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 |

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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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