The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 16

Your tube, Ali, revealed to you and your brothers the illness of your cousin; but you must grant that the knowledge of her illness would have been of no service without the artificial apple and the carpet.

Who acts: tube, you, knowledge · What happens: reveal, grant, be · To what, where: illness, you

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 (tube, you, knowledge), 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	Your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	2 tube	nmod:poss
2	tube	tube	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 revealed	nsubj
3	,	,	PUNCT	_	4 Ali	punct
4	Ali	Ali	PROPN	Number=Sing	2 tube	appos
5	,	,	PUNCT	_	6 revealed	punct
6	revealed	reveal	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
7	to	to	ADP	_	8 you	case
8	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	6 revealed	obl
9	and	and	CCONJ	_	11 brothers	cc
10	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	11 brothers	nmod:poss
11	brothers	brother	NOUN	Number=Plur	8 you	conj
12	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	13 illness	det
13	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	6 revealed	obj
14	of	of	ADP	_	16 cousin	case
15	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	16 cousin	nmod:poss
16	cousin	cousin	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 illness	nmod
17	;	;	PUNCT	_	21 grant	punct
18	but	but	CCONJ	_	21 grant	cc
19	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	21 grant	nsubj
20	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 grant	aux
21	grant	grant	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	6 revealed	parataxis
22	that	that	SCONJ	_	33 service	mark
23	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	24 knowledge	det
24	knowledge	knowledge	NOUN	Number=Sing	33 service	nsubj
25	of	of	ADP	_	27 illness	case
26	her	her	PRON	Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	27 illness	nmod:poss
27	illness	illness	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 knowledge	nmod
28	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	33 service	aux
29	have	have	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	33 service	aux
30	been	be	AUX	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part	33 service	cop
31	of	of	ADP	_	33 service	case
32	no	no	DET	PronType=Neg	33 service	det
33	service	service	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grant	advcl
34	without	without	ADP	_	37 apple	case
35	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	37 apple	det
36	artificial	artificial	ADJ	Degree=Pos	37 apple	amod
37	apple	apple	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 grant	obl
38	and	and	CCONJ	_	40 carpet	cc
39	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	40 carpet	det
40	carpet	carpet	NOUN	Number=Sing	37 apple	conj
41	.	.	PUNCT	_	6 revealed	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	other	roles by
1	reveal	participle	Your tube	the illness of your cousin	you		vn confess-37.10 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent illness=Topic to you=Recipient
2	grant	must	you			without the artificial apple and the carpet	vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent
3	is	would · perfect	the knowledge of tube's illness			of no service	tree rules

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 16

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 16