The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 1
“If that be all,” replied Prince Houssain, “we cannot make more despatch than by transporting ourselves instantly into her chamber by means of my carpet.
Who acts: all, we · What happens: reply, not make, transport, mean · To what, where: Prince, more despatch, ourselves, chamber · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 12. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (all, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
| 2 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 all | mark |
| 3 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 all | nsubj |
| 4 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 5 all | cop |
| 5 | all | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 replied | nsubj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 7 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 5 all | punct |
| 8 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 replied | obj |
| 10 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 9 Prince | flat |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 make | punct |
| 13 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 make | nsubj |
| 14 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 make | aux |
| 15 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 16 make | advmod |
| 16 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 replied | conj |
| 17 | more | more | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 18 despatch | amod |
| 18 | despatch | despatch | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 make | obj |
| 19 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 21 transporting | mark |
| 20 | by | by | SCONJ | _ | 21 transporting | mark |
| 21 | transporting | transport | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 16 make | advcl |
| 22 | ourselves | ourselves | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 21 transporting | obj |
| 23 | instantly | instantly | ADV | _ | 21 transporting | advmod |
| 24 | into | into | ADP | _ | 26 chamber | case |
| 25 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 chamber | nmod:poss |
| 26 | chamber | chamber | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 transporting | obl |
| 27 | by | by | ADP | _ | 28 means | case |
| 28 | means | mean | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 21 transporting | parataxis |
| 29 | of | of | ADP | _ | 31 carpet | case |
| 30 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 31 carpet | nmod:poss |
| 31 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 means | obl |
| 32 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | all that | Prince | vn say-37.7-1 «NP V NP.topic»: agent=Agent prince=Topic | ||||
| 2 | not make in a quote | can | we | more despatch | vn build-26.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent despatch=Product | ||||
| 3 | transport in a quote | gerund | we not said here | ourselves | her chamber | instantly property | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus ourselves=Experiencer | ||
| 4 | mean in a quote | present | of my carpet | vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=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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