The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 24
Go to him to-morrow, and after that visit him once a month, without speaking to me or waiting for my permission.
Who acts: you, my · What happens: go, visit, speak, wait, permit · To what, where: fairy, morrow, me · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 13. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (you, my), 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 | Go | go | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | to | to | ADP | _ | 3 him | case |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Go | obl |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 morrow | case |
| 5 | - | - | PUNCT | _ | 4 to | punct |
| 6 | morrow | morrow | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Go | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 11 visit | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 11 visit | cc |
| 9 | after | after | ADP | _ | 10 that | case |
| 10 | that | that | PRON | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 11 visit | obl |
| 11 | visit | visit | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 1 Go | conj |
| 12 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 11 visit | obj |
| 13 | once | once | ADV | NumForm=Word NumType=Mult | 11 visit | advmod |
| 14 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 15 month | det |
| 15 | month | month | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 once | obl:unmarked |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 18 speaking | punct |
| 17 | without | without | SCONJ | _ | 18 speaking | mark |
| 18 | speaking | speak | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 11 visit | advcl |
| 19 | to | to | ADP | _ | 20 me | case |
| 20 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 speaking | obl |
| 21 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 22 waiting | cc |
| 22 | waiting | wait | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 18 speaking | conj |
| 23 | for | for | ADP | _ | 25 permission | case |
| 24 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 25 permission | nmod:poss |
| 25 | permission | permission | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 waiting | obl |
| 26 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Go | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | go | imperative | you not said here | fairy | morrow | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location PP.destination»: agent=Theme to he=Initial_Location to morrow=Destination | |||
| 2 | visit | present | you not said here | fairy | after that | once property | vn meet-36.3-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Co-Agent | ||
| 3 | speak speech: other | gerund | you not said here | me | vn talk-37.5 «NP V PP.co-agent»: agent=Agent to i=Co-Agent | ||||
| 4 | wait | gerund | you not said here | for my permission | vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 5 | permit | my | nom permission «communication 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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