The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 10, sentence 19
Come with me, my faithful friend; we will go to the grave of the Prophet, and perhaps at that sacred spot the spell may be loosed.”
Who acts: you, we · What happens: come, go, spot, loose · To what, where: grave, spell
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 10. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, we), 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 | Come | come | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | with | with | ADP | _ | 3 me | case |
| 3 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Come | obl |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 friend | punct |
| 5 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 friend | nmod:poss |
| 6 | faithful | faithful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 friend | amod |
| 7 | friend | friend | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Come | advcl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 11 go | punct |
| 9 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 11 go | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 11 go | aux |
| 11 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Come | parataxis |
| 12 | to | to | ADP | _ | 14 grave | case |
| 13 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 14 grave | det |
| 14 | grave | grave | NOUN | Number=Sing | 11 go | obl |
| 15 | of | of | ADP | _ | 17 Prophet | case |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 Prophet | det |
| 17 | Prophet | Prophet | PROPN | Number=Sing | 14 grave | nmod |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 loosed | punct |
| 19 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 loosed | cc |
| 20 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 23 sacred | advmod |
| 21 | at | at | ADP | _ | 22 that | case |
| 22 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 23 sacred | obl |
| 23 | sacred | sacred | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 loosed | parataxis |
| 24 | spot | spot | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 sacred | xcomp |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 spell | det |
| 26 | spell | spell | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 spot | obj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 loosed | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 loosed | aux:pass |
| 29 | loosed | loose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 11 go | conj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Come | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | come | imperative | you not said here | with me; my faithful friend advcl | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | go | future | we | the grave of the Prophet | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to grave=Initial_Location | ||||
| 3 | spot | infinitive | the spell | vn fill-9.8-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Theme spell=Destination | |||||
| 4 | loose | may · passive | we not said here | vn other_cos-45.4 «NP.patient V» |
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: «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Project Gutenberg book 65965 (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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