The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 13, sentence 96
Request the prince to procure you a tent, which can be carried in a man’s hand, and yet be large enough to shelter your whole army.”
Who acts: you · What happens: request, procure, carry, be, shelter · To what, where: prince, tent, you, hand, whole army
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), 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 | Request | request | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 3 prince | det |
| 3 | prince | prince | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Request | obj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 procure | mark |
| 5 | procure | procure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Request | advcl |
| 6 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 5 procure | obj |
| 7 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 8 tent | det |
| 8 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 procure | obj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 carried | punct |
| 10 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 13 carried | nsubj:pass |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 13 carried | aux |
| 12 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 carried | aux:pass |
| 13 | carried | carry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 8 tent | acl |
| 14 | in | in | ADP | _ | 18 hand | case |
| 15 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 16 man | det |
| 16 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 hand | nmod:poss |
| 17 | ’s | 's | PART | _ | 16 man | case |
| 18 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 13 carried | obl |
| 19 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 large | punct |
| 20 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 23 large | cc |
| 21 | yet | yet | ADV | _ | 23 large | advmod |
| 22 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 23 large | cop |
| 23 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Request | parataxis |
| 24 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 23 large | advmod |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 shelter | mark |
| 26 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 large | advcl |
| 27 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 29 army | nmod:poss |
| 28 | whole | whole | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 29 army | amod |
| 29 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 26 shelter | obj |
| 30 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Request | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Request | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | request | imperative | you not said here | the prince | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent prince=Recipient | ||||
| 2 | procure | to-infinitive | you not said here | a tent | you | vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP.beneficiary NP»: agent=Agent you=Beneficiary tent=Theme | |||
| 3 | carry | can · passive | a tent | a man's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in hand=Location | ||||
| 4 | is | infinitive | yet | enough, large property | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | shelter | to-infinitive | your whole army | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Patient |
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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