The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 57
I recommend her to your care, and am persuaded that you, from inclination, as well as my request, will not abandon her.”
Who acts: I, your, my · What happens: recommend, persuade, not abandon, care, request · To what, where: woman
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 (I, your, 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 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 recommend | nsubj |
| 2 | recommend | recommend | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 recommend | obj |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 6 care | case |
| 5 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 6 care | nmod:poss |
| 6 | care | care | NOUN | Number=Sing | 2 recommend | obl |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 persuaded | punct |
| 8 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 persuaded | cc |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 persuaded | aux:pass |
| 10 | persuaded | persuade | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 2 recommend | parataxis |
| 11 | that | that | ADP | _ | 12 you | case |
| 12 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 persuaded | obl |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 inclination | punct |
| 14 | from | from | ADP | _ | 15 inclination | case |
| 15 | inclination | inclination | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 persuaded | parataxis |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 21 request | punct |
| 17 | as | as | ADV | ExtPos=CCONJ | 21 request | cc |
| 18 | well | well | ADV | Degree=Pos | 17 as | fixed |
| 19 | as | as | ADP | _ | 17 as | fixed |
| 20 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 21 request | nmod:poss |
| 21 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 inclination | conj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 abandon | punct |
| 23 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 25 abandon | aux |
| 24 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 25 abandon | advmod |
| 25 | abandon | abandon | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 recommend | ccomp |
| 26 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 25 abandon | obj |
| 27 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 25 abandon | punct |
| 28 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 25 abandon | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | recommend | present | I | woman | to your care | tree rules | |||
| 2 | persuade | present · passive | that you; inclination as my request parataxis | vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP» | |||||
| 3 | not abandon | future | I not said here | woman | vn leave-51.2 «NP V NP.initial_location»: agent=Theme she=Source | ||||
| 4 | care | your | nom care «act intransitive»: poss=agent | ||||||
| 5 | request | my | nom request «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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