The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 55
Let us come to that which is of the greatest importance for us to know, and not conceal from each other the curiosities we have brought, but show them, that we may ourselves judge to which of us the sultan our father may give the preference.
Who acts: you, us, that, we, sultan · What happens: let, come, be, know, not conceal, bring · To what, where: us, curiosities, each, brothers, preference
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 (you, us, that, 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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | xcomp |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 importance | case |
| 5 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 importance | nsubj |
| 6 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 11 importance | nsubj |
| 7 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 11 importance | cop |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 importance | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 importance | det |
| 10 | greatest | great | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 11 importance | amod |
| 11 | importance | importance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 come | obl |
| 12 | for | for | SCONJ | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 13 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 know | nsubj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 know | mark |
| 15 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 come | advcl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 conceal | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 conceal | cc |
| 18 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 19 conceal | advmod |
| 19 | conceal | conceal | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | conj |
| 20 | from | from | ADP | _ | 21 each | case |
| 21 | each | each | DET | ExtPos=PRON PronType=Rcp | 19 conceal | obl |
| 22 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 each | fixed |
| 23 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 24 curiosities | det |
| 24 | curiosities | curiosity | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 conceal | obj |
| 25 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 brought | nsubj |
| 26 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 brought | aux |
| 27 | brought | bring | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 curiosities | acl:relcl |
| 28 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 show | punct |
| 29 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 30 show | cc |
| 30 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 31 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 30 show | obj |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 37 judge | punct |
| 33 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 37 judge | mark |
| 34 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 judge | nsubj |
| 35 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 judge | aux |
| 36 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 37 judge | nsubj |
| 37 | judge | judge | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 30 show | parataxis |
| 38 | to | to | ADP | _ | 39 which | case |
| 39 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 give | obj |
| 40 | of | of | ADP | _ | 41 us | case |
| 41 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 39 which | obl |
| 42 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 43 sultan | det |
| 43 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 give | nsubj |
| 44 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 45 father | nmod:poss |
| 45 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 give | nsubj |
| 46 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 give | aux |
| 47 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 judge | ccomp |
| 48 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 49 preference | det |
| 49 | preference | preference | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 give | obj |
| 50 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | us | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | come | infinitive | us not said here | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | is | present | that | to the greatest importance; which nsubj | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | know | to-infinitive | us | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | not conceal | infinitive | you not said here | the curiosities | each | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP PP.beneficiary»: agent=Agent curiosity=Patient from each=Beneficiary | |||
| 6 | bring | present · perfect | we | the curiosities not said here | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent curiosity=Theme | ||||
| 7 | show | infinitive | brothers = brother | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent they=Recipient | |||||
| 8 | judge | may | we | ourselves nsubj | vn estimate-34.2-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 9 | give | may | the sultan | the preference | which of us obj; our father nsubj | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent which=Recipient preference=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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