The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 66
I would not have you take my word,” added Prince Ali, presenting the tube to him.
Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: not have, take, add, present, word · To what, where: word, Ali, tube · 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, you, my), 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 | 4 have | nsubj |
| 2 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 have | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 have | advmod |
| 4 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 added | ccomp |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 take | nsubj |
| 6 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 have | xcomp |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 word | nmod:poss |
| 8 | word | word | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 take | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 have | punct |
| 11 | added | add | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 13 Ali | nmod:desc |
| 13 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 added | obj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 presenting | punct |
| 15 | presenting | present | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 added | advcl |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 tube | det |
| 17 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 presenting | obj |
| 18 | to | to | ADP | _ | 19 him | case |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 15 presenting | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 11 added | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not have | would | I | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | take | infinitive | you | my word | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent word=Theme | ||||
| 3 | add speech: assert in a quote | past | Ali Prince | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | present in a quote | gerund | the tube | Ali | vn fulfilling-13.4.1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent tube=Theme to he=Recipient | ||||
| 5 | word | my | nom word «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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