The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 76
“Sire,” replied the sorceress, “if you will allow me till to-morrow, I will endeavor to satisfy you.”
Who acts: Sire, you · What happens: reply, allow, endeavor, satisfy · To what, where: sorceress, Sire, you · 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 (Sire, you), 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 | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 2 | Sire | sire | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Sire | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 sorceress | det |
| 7 | sorceress | sorceress | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 allow | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 13 allow | punct |
| 10 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 13 allow | mark |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 allow | nsubj |
| 12 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 allow | aux |
| 13 | allow | allow | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 7 sorceress | acl:relcl |
| 14 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 13 allow | iobj |
| 15 | till | till | ADP | _ | 18 morrow | case |
| 16 | to | to | ADP | _ | 18 morrow | case |
| 17 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 16 to | punct |
| 18 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 allow | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 endeavor | punct |
| 20 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 22 endeavor | nsubj |
| 21 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 22 endeavor | aux |
| 22 | endeavor | endeavor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 satisfy | mark |
| 24 | satisfy | satisfy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 22 endeavor | xcomp |
| 25 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 satisfy | obj |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 22 endeavor | punct |
| 27 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 22 endeavor | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Sire | the sorceress | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | allow a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | future | you | the sorceress not said here | Sire | till morrow | vn allow-64.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||
| 3 | endeavor in a quote | future | Sire | tree rules | |||||
| 4 | satisfy in a quote | to-infinitive | Sire not said here | you | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus you=Experiencer |
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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