The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 69
If thou hast any regard for my life I beg thee to assist me, and find out where he is.”
Who acts: thou, I, Prince · What happens: have, beg, assist, find out, be · To what, where: regard, thee, me · 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 (thou, I, Prince), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 3 hast | mark |
| 2 | thou | thou | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 3 hast | nsubj |
| 3 | hast | have | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Style=Arch Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 beg | advcl |
| 4 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 5 regard | det |
| 5 | regard | regard | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 hast | obj |
| 6 | for | for | ADP | _ | 8 life | case |
| 7 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 life | nmod:poss |
| 8 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 regard | nmod |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 beg | nsubj |
| 10 | beg | beg | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | thee | thou | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Style=Arch | 10 beg | obj |
| 12 | to | to | PART | _ | 13 assist | mark |
| 13 | assist | assist | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 beg | advcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 assist | obj |
| 15 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 find | punct |
| 16 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 17 find | cc |
| 17 | find | find | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 10 beg | conj |
| 18 | out | out | ADP | _ | 17 find | compound:prt |
| 19 | where | where | ADV | PronType=Rel | 21 is | advmod |
| 20 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 21 is | nsubj |
| 21 | is | be | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 find | ccomp |
| 22 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 beg | punct |
| 23 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 10 beg | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | have a condition, not said to happen | present | thou | any regard | for my life | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent regard=Patient | |||
| 2 | beg speech: request | present | I | thee | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent thou=Recipient | ||||
| 3 | assist | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn help-72.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | find out | infinitive | I not said here | vn learn-14-2-1 «NP V what S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 5 | be | present | Prince | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=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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