The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 84
Do not inform your father of our marriage, neither of my quality, nor the place of our residence.
Who acts: you, our · What happens: not inform, marry · To what, where: father
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, our), 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 | Do | do | AUX | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 3 inform | aux |
| 2 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 3 inform | advmod |
| 3 | inform | inform | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 father | nmod:poss |
| 5 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 inform | obj |
| 6 | of | of | ADP | _ | 8 marriage | case |
| 7 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 8 marriage | nmod:poss |
| 8 | marriage | marriage | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | nmod |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 quality | punct |
| 10 | neither | neither | DET | PronType=Neg | 13 quality | nsubj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 13 quality | case |
| 12 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 13 quality | nmod:poss |
| 13 | quality | quality | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | conj |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 place | punct |
| 15 | nor | nor | CCONJ | Polarity=Neg | 17 place | cc |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 place | det |
| 17 | place | place | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 father | conj |
| 18 | of | of | ADP | _ | 20 residence | case |
| 19 | our | our | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 20 residence | nmod:poss |
| 20 | residence | residence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 place | nmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 inform | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not inform speech: other | imperative · do-support | you not said here | your father of our marriage and my quality nor the place of our residence | vn tell-37.2 «NP V NP.recipient»: agent=Agent father=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | marry | our | nom marriage «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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