The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 83
You can go when you please; but first let me give you some advice how you shall conduct yourself.
Who acts: You, me · What happens: go, let, give, conduct · To what, where: me, advice, you, yourself
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, me), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | nsubj |
| 2 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 go | aux |
| 3 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 5 you | mark |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 go | xcomp |
| 6 | please | please | INTJ | _ | 3 go | discourse |
| 7 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 10 let | punct |
| 8 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 10 let | cc |
| 9 | first | first | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Ord | 10 let | advmod |
| 10 | let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 go | conj |
| 11 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 let | obj |
| 12 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 let | xcomp |
| 13 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 give | iobj |
| 14 | some | some | DET | PronType=Ind | 15 advice | det |
| 15 | advice | advice | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 give | obj |
| 16 | how | how | ADV | PronType=Int | 19 conduct | advmod |
| 17 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 conduct | nsubj |
| 18 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 conduct | aux |
| 19 | conduct | conduct | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 give | advcl |
| 20 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 19 conduct | obj |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | can | You | you xcomp | vn disappearance-48.2-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | let | infinitive | You not said here | me | first property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | give | infinitive | me not said here | some advice | you | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient advice=Theme | |||
| 4 | conduct | shall | you | yourself | vn accompany-51.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent yourself=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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