The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 62
But since you do not consent that I should go and comfort him by the assurance of my life, I will deny myself the pleasure, as there is nothing to which I would not submit to please you.”
Who acts: you, I, nothing, life · What happens: not consent, go, comfort, deny, be, not submit · To what, where: Prince, myself, 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 (you, I, nothing, life), 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 | But | but | CCONJ | _ | 23 deny | cc |
| 2 | since | since | SCONJ | _ | 6 consent | mark |
| 3 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 6 consent | nsubj |
| 4 | do | do | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 6 consent | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 consent | advmod |
| 6 | consent | consent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 deny | advcl |
| 7 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 10 go | mark |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 go | nsubj |
| 9 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 go | aux |
| 10 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 consent | advcl |
| 11 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 12 comfort | cc |
| 12 | comfort | comfort | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 go | conj |
| 13 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 comfort | obj |
| 14 | by | by | ADP | _ | 16 assurance | case |
| 15 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 16 assurance | det |
| 16 | assurance | assurance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 comfort | obl |
| 17 | of | of | ADP | _ | 19 life | case |
| 18 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 life | nmod:poss |
| 19 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 assurance | nmod |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 6 consent | punct |
| 21 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 deny | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 deny | aux |
| 23 | deny | deny | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 24 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 23 deny | obj |
| 25 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 26 pleasure | det |
| 26 | pleasure | pleasure | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 deny | obj |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 30 is | punct |
| 28 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 30 is | mark |
| 29 | there | there | PRON | PronType=Dem | 30 is | expl |
| 30 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 deny | conj |
| 31 | nothing | nothing | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Neg | 30 is | nsubj |
| 32 | to | to | ADP | _ | 33 which | case |
| 33 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 37 submit | obl |
| 34 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 submit | nsubj |
| 35 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 37 submit | aux |
| 36 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 37 submit | advmod |
| 37 | submit | submit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 nothing | acl:relcl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 please | mark |
| 39 | please | please | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 submit | xcomp |
| 40 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 39 please | obj |
| 41 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 23 deny | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 deny | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not consent | present · do-support | you | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | go | should | I | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 3 | comfort | infinitive | I not said here | Prince | by the assurance of my life | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus he=Experiencer | |||
| 4 | deny | future | I | myself | the pleasure obj | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V NP to be NP»: agent=Agent myself=Theme pleasure=Eventuality | |||
| 5 | be | present | nothing | there | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 6 | not submit | would | I | which obl | vn acquiesce-95.1-1-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | ||||
| 7 | please | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer | ||||
| 8 | assure | my life | nom assurance «cognition intransitive»: of=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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