The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 17
And as for you, Houssain, your carpet was an essential instrument in effecting her cure; but consider, it would have been of little use if you had not been acquainted with her illness by Ali’s tube, or if Ahmed had not applied his artificial apple.
Who acts: you, essential instrument, cure, tube, Ahmed · What happens: be, effect, consider, not acquaint, not apply · To what, where: essential instrument, cure, you, artificial apple
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 (you, essential instrument, cure, 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 | And | and | CCONJ | _ | 13 instrument | cc |
| 2 | as | as | ADV | _ | 4 you | advmod |
| 3 | for | for | ADP | _ | 4 you | case |
| 4 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 instrument | nsubj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 Houssain | punct |
| 6 | Houssain | Houssain | PROPN | Number=Sing | 4 you | conj |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 instrument | punct |
| 8 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 9 carpet | nmod:poss |
| 9 | carpet | carpet | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 instrument | nsubj |
| 10 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 13 instrument | cop |
| 11 | an | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 13 instrument | det |
| 12 | essential | essential | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 instrument | amod |
| 13 | instrument | instrument | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 14 | in | in | SCONJ | _ | 15 effecting | mark |
| 15 | effecting | effect | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 13 instrument | acl |
| 16 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 cure | nmod:poss |
| 17 | cure | cure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 effecting | obj |
| 18 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 20 consider | punct |
| 19 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 20 consider | cc |
| 20 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 instrument | conj |
| 21 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 28 use | punct |
| 22 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 use | nsubj |
| 23 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 28 use | aux |
| 24 | have | have | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 28 use | aux |
| 25 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 use | cop |
| 26 | of | of | ADP | _ | 28 use | case |
| 27 | little | little | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 28 use | amod |
| 28 | use | use | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 consider | ccomp |
| 29 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 34 acquainted | mark |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 acquainted | nsubj |
| 31 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 34 acquainted | aux |
| 32 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 34 acquainted | advmod |
| 33 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 34 acquainted | aux:pass |
| 34 | acquainted | acquaint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 28 use | advcl |
| 35 | with | with | ADP | _ | 37 illness | case |
| 36 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 illness | nmod:poss |
| 37 | illness | illness | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 acquainted | obl |
| 38 | by | by | ADP | _ | 41 tube | case |
| 39 | Ali | Ali | PROPN | Number=Sing | 41 tube | nmod:poss |
| 40 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 39 Ali | case |
| 41 | tube | tube | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 acquainted | obl |
| 42 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 48 applied | punct |
| 43 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 48 applied | cc |
| 44 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 48 applied | mark |
| 45 | Ahmed | Ahmed | PROPN | Number=Sing | 48 applied | nsubj |
| 46 | had | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 48 applied | aux |
| 47 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 48 applied | advmod |
| 48 | applied | apply | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 28 use | advcl |
| 49 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 51 apple | nmod:poss |
| 50 | artificial | artificial | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 51 apple | amod |
| 51 | apple | apple | NOUN | Number=Sing | 48 applied | obj |
| 52 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 13 instrument | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | past | you | a essential instrument | your carpet nsubj | tree rules | |||
| 2 | effect | gerund | a essential instrument not said here | carpet's cure | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | consider | infinitive | you not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 4 | is | would · perfect | cure | of little use | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | not acquaint speech: other a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect · passive | Ali's tube | you | with carpet's illness | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent subject=Recipient | |||
| 6 | not apply a condition, not said to happen | past · perfect | Ahmed | Ahmed's artificial apple | vn use-105.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent apple=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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