The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 89
You ought to put him under arrest; I will not say take away his life, but make him a close prisoner.”
Who acts: You, I · What happens: put, not say, take away, make · To what, where: sultan, arrest, life · 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, 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 4 put | nsubj |
| 2 | ought | ought | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 put | aux |
| 3 | to | to | PART | _ | 4 put | mark |
| 4 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 4 put | obj |
| 6 | under | under | ADP | _ | 7 arrest | case |
| 7 | arrest | arrest | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 put | obl |
| 8 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 12 say | punct |
| 9 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 say | nsubj |
| 10 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 say | aux |
| 11 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 12 say | advmod |
| 12 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 4 put | parataxis |
| 13 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 say | xcomp |
| 14 | away | away | ADP | _ | 13 take | compound:prt |
| 15 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 life | nmod:poss |
| 16 | life | life | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 take | obj |
| 17 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 make | punct |
| 18 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 19 make | cc |
| 19 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 say | conj |
| 20 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 19 make | obj |
| 21 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 23 prisoner | det |
| 22 | close | close | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 23 prisoner | amod |
| 23 | prisoner | prisoner | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 make | xcomp |
| 24 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
| 25 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 4 put | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | put | ought | You | sultan | arrest | vn put-9.1-2 «NP V NP PP.destination»: agent=Agent he=Theme under arrest=Destination | |||
| 2 | not say speech: assert | future | I | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | take away | infinitive | I not said here | sultan's life | vn remove-10.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent life=Theme | ||||
| 4 | make | infinitive | I not said here | sultan | a close prisoner xcomp | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset he=Product |
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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