The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 82
One day she said to him, “Prince, as I am now fully convinced that I can depend on the fidelity of your love, I grant you leave to visit the sultan your father, on condition that your absence shall not be long.
Who acts: fairy, you, condition, your · What happens: say, be, depend, grant, leave, visit · To what, where: sultan, condition · 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 (fairy, you, condition, your), 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 | One | one | NUM | NumForm=Word NumType=Card | 2 day | nummod |
| 2 | day | day | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 said | obl:unmarked |
| 3 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | nsubj |
| 4 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 5 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 him | case |
| 6 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 said | ccomp |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 Prince | punct |
| 8 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 9 Prince | punct |
| 9 | Prince | Prince | PROPN | Number=Sing | 6 him | conj |
| 10 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 convinced | punct |
| 11 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 16 convinced | mark |
| 12 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 16 convinced | nsubj |
| 13 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 16 convinced | cop |
| 14 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 16 convinced | advmod |
| 15 | fully | fully | ADV | _ | 16 convinced | advmod |
| 16 | convinced | convinced | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 4 said | ccomp |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 20 depend | mark |
| 18 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 depend | nsubj |
| 19 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 20 depend | aux |
| 20 | depend | depend | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 convinced | ccomp |
| 21 | on | on | ADP | _ | 23 fidelity | case |
| 22 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 23 fidelity | det |
| 23 | fidelity | fidelity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 depend | obl |
| 24 | of | of | ADP | _ | 26 love | case |
| 25 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 love | nmod:poss |
| 26 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 fidelity | nmod |
| 27 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 grant | punct |
| 28 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 29 grant | nsubj |
| 29 | grant | grant | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 said | parataxis |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 31 leave | nsubj |
| 31 | leave | leave | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 29 grant | conj |
| 32 | to | to | PART | _ | 33 visit | mark |
| 33 | visit | visit | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 31 leave | advcl |
| 34 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 35 sultan | det |
| 35 | sultan | sultan | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 visit | obj |
| 36 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 37 father | nmod:poss |
| 37 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 visit | obj |
| 38 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 40 condition | punct |
| 39 | on | on | ADP | _ | 40 condition | case |
| 40 | condition | condition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 visit | obl |
| 41 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 47 long | nsubj |
| 42 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 43 absence | nmod:poss |
| 43 | absence | absence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 47 long | nsubj |
| 44 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 47 long | aux |
| 45 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 47 long | advmod |
| 46 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 47 long | cop |
| 47 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 40 condition | acl:relcl |
| 48 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | past | fairy | day | Prince ccomp | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||
| 2 | is in a quote | present | fairy | now | convinced, fully property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | depend in a quote | can | fairy | on the fidelity of your love | vn rely-70 «NP V PP.theme S_ING»: agent=Agent on fidelity=Theme | ||||
| 4 | grant in a quote | present | fairy | vn future_having-13.3 «NP V NP.theme (PP)»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 5 | leave in a quote | present | you | vn escape-51.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||||
| 6 | visit in a quote | to-infinitive | you not said here | the sultan | condition | your father obj | tree rules | ||
| 7 | not is in a quote | shall | condition | your absence nsubj; long property | tree rules | ||||
| 8 | love in a quote | your | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 9 | absent in a quote | your | nom absence «state transitive»: poss=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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