The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 4
I think it would not be amiss if you were to travel separately into different countries, so that you might not meet each other; and I promise my niece in marriage to him who shall bring me the most extraordinary rarity.
Who acts: I, wish, you · What happens: think, not be, travel, not meet, promise, bring · To what, where: different countries, each, niece, marriage, extraordinary rarity, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 11. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, wish, you), 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 think | nsubj |
| 2 | think | think | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 7 amiss | nsubj |
| 4 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 7 amiss | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 7 amiss | advmod |
| 6 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 7 amiss | cop |
| 7 | amiss | amiss | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 2 think | ccomp |
| 8 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 12 travel | mark |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 travel | nsubj |
| 10 | were | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 12 travel | aux |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 travel | mark |
| 12 | travel | travel | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 amiss | advcl |
| 13 | separately | separately | ADV | _ | 12 travel | advmod |
| 14 | into | into | ADP | _ | 16 countries | case |
| 15 | different | different | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 countries | amod |
| 16 | countries | country | NOUN | Number=Plur | 12 travel | obl |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 meet | punct |
| 18 | so | so | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 23 meet | mark |
| 19 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 18 so | fixed |
| 20 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 meet | nsubj |
| 21 | might | might | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 meet | aux |
| 22 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 meet | advmod |
| 23 | meet | meet | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 travel | conj |
| 24 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 23 meet | obj |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 each | fixed |
| 26 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 29 promise | punct |
| 27 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 29 promise | cc |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 promise | nsubj |
| 29 | promise | promise | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 think | conj |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 niece | nmod:poss |
| 31 | niece | niece | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 promise | obj |
| 32 | in | in | ADP | _ | 33 marriage | case |
| 33 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 29 promise | obl |
| 34 | to | to | ADP | _ | 35 him | case |
| 35 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 29 promise | obl |
| 36 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 38 bring | nsubj |
| 37 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 bring | aux |
| 38 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 29 promise | ccomp |
| 39 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 38 bring | obj |
| 40 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 rarity | det |
| 41 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 42 extraordinary | advmod |
| 42 | extraordinary | extraordinary | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 43 rarity | amod |
| 43 | rarity | rarity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 38 bring | obj |
| 44 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 think | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | think speech: other | present | I | vn focus-87.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | not is | would | wish | amiss property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | travel a condition, not said to happen | past | you | different countries | separately property | vn run-51.3.2-1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme into country=Destination | |||
| 4 | not meet | might | you | each | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent each=Co-Agent | ||||
| 5 | promise speech: promise | present | I | my niece | marriage | to him = he | vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent niece=Recipient clause=Topic | ||
| 6 | bring | shall | the extraordinary rarity | me | who nsubj | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent i=Destination rarity=Theme |
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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