The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 77
Follow my women, and they will show it to you.”
Who acts: you, attendants · What happens: follow, show · To what, where: women, palace, you
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, attendants), 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 | Follow | follow | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 women | nmod:poss |
| 3 | women | woman | NOUN | Number=Plur | 1 Follow | obj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 show | punct |
| 5 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 show | cc |
| 6 | they | they | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 show | nsubj |
| 7 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 8 show | aux |
| 8 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Follow | parataxis |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 8 show | obj |
| 10 | to | to | ADP | _ | 11 you | case |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 show | obl |
| 12 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
| 13 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Follow | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | follow | imperative | you not said here | my women | vn chase-51.6 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent woman=Theme | ||||
| 2 | show | future | attendants = attendant | palace | you | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP PP.recipient»: agent=Agent it=Topic to you=Recipient |
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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