The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 11, sentence 75
I have made the experiment, and can show you its wonderful effect on the person of the Princess Nouronnihar if we hasten to assist her.”
Who acts: I, we, tube · What happens: make, show, hasten, assist, effect · To what, where: experiment, wonderful effect, you, Nouronnihar
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, we, tube), 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 | 3 made | nsubj |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | aux |
| 3 | made | make | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | root | root |
| 4 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 5 experiment | det |
| 5 | experiment | experiment | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 made | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 show | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 show | cc |
| 8 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 show | aux |
| 9 | show | show | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 made | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 show | iobj |
| 11 | its | its | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 effect | nmod:poss |
| 12 | wonderful | wonderful | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 effect | amod |
| 13 | effect | effect | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 show | obj |
| 14 | on | on | ADP | _ | 16 person | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 person | det |
| 16 | person | person | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 effect | nmod |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 Nouronnihar | case |
| 18 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 Nouronnihar | det |
| 19 | Princess | Princess | PROPN | Number=Sing | 20 Nouronnihar | compound |
| 20 | Nouronnihar | Nouronnihar | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 person | nmod |
| 21 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 23 hasten | mark |
| 22 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 hasten | nsubj |
| 23 | hasten | hasten | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 9 show | advcl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 assist | mark |
| 25 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 hasten | xcomp |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 assist | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 made | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | make | present · perfect | I | the experiment | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent experiment=Product | ||||
| 2 | show | can | tube's wonderful effect | you | on the person of the Princess Nouronnihar | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient effect=Topic | |||
| 3 | hasten a condition, not said to happen | present | we | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | assist | to-infinitive | we not said here | Nouronnihar | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent she=Beneficiary | ||||
| 5 | effect | tube | on the person of the Princess Nouronnihar | nom effect «phenomenon transitive»: poss=agent on=obl |
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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