The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 12, sentence 85
Beg of him to be satisfied with knowing that you are happy, and that the sole end of your visit is to make him easy respecting your fate.”
Who acts: Beg, you, sole end, your · What happens: be, know, respect, visit, fate · To what, where: fate · 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 (Beg, you, sole end, 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 | Beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 satisfied | nsubj |
| 2 | of | of | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Beg | nmod |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 6 satisfied | mark |
| 5 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 satisfied | cop |
| 6 | satisfied | satisfied | ADJ | Degree=Pos | root | root |
| 7 | with | with | SCONJ | _ | 8 knowing | mark |
| 8 | knowing | know | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 6 satisfied | advcl |
| 9 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 12 happy | mark |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 happy | nsubj |
| 11 | are | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 happy | cop |
| 12 | happy | happy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 8 knowing | ccomp |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 make | punct |
| 14 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 24 make | cc |
| 15 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 18 end | det |
| 17 | sole | sole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 18 end | amod |
| 18 | end | end | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 make | nsubj |
| 19 | of | of | ADP | _ | 21 visit | case |
| 20 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 visit | nmod:poss |
| 21 | visit | visit | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 end | nmod |
| 22 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 make | cop |
| 23 | to | to | PART | _ | 24 make | mark |
| 24 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 satisfied | conj |
| 25 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 make | obj |
| 26 | easy | easy | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 make | xcomp |
| 27 | respecting | respect | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 easy | advcl |
| 28 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 fate | nmod:poss |
| 29 | fate | fate | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 respecting | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 satisfied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is | to-infinitive | Beg of father | satisfied property | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | know | gerund | Beg of father not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 3 | is | present | you | happy property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | is | present | the sole end of your visit | father obj; easy, make property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | respect | gerund | the sole end of your visit not said here | your fate | vn admire-31.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer fate=Stimulus | ||||
| 6 | visit | your | nom visit «act transitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 7 | fate | your | nom fate «event 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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