The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 76
I will not detain you; but perhaps you may not be displeased to see my palace.
Who acts: I · What happens: not detain, not displease, see · To what, where: you, palace
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), 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 | 4 detain | nsubj |
| 2 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 detain | aux |
| 3 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 4 detain | advmod |
| 4 | detain | detain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 detain | obj |
| 6 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 13 displeased | punct |
| 7 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 13 displeased | cc |
| 8 | perhaps | perhaps | ADV | _ | 13 displeased | advmod |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 13 displeased | nsubj |
| 10 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 displeased | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 13 displeased | advmod |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 displeased | aux:pass |
| 13 | displeased | displease | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 4 detain | conj |
| 14 | to | to | PART | _ | 15 see | mark |
| 15 | see | see | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 13 displeased | xcomp |
| 16 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 17 palace | nmod:poss |
| 17 | palace | palace | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 see | obj |
| 18 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 detain | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not detain | future | I | you | vn confine-92 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme | ||||
| 2 | not displease | may · passive | you | perhaps property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | see | to-infinitive | my palace | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Experiencer palace=Stimulus |
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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