The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 11
However, I will not fail, though it be with great reluctance, to ask my wife the favor you desire.
Who acts: I, influence, you · What happens: not fail, be, ask, desire · To what, where: favor, wife
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 14. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (I, influence, 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 | However | however | ADV | _ | 6 fail | advmod |
| 2 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 1 However | punct |
| 3 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 6 fail | nsubj |
| 4 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 6 fail | aux |
| 5 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 6 fail | advmod |
| 6 | fail | fail | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 7 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 13 reluctance | punct |
| 8 | though | though | SCONJ | _ | 13 reluctance | mark |
| 9 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 13 reluctance | nsubj |
| 10 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 13 reluctance | cop |
| 11 | with | with | ADP | _ | 13 reluctance | case |
| 12 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 13 reluctance | amod |
| 13 | reluctance | reluctance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 fail | obl |
| 14 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 ask | punct |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 ask | mark |
| 16 | ask | ask | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 fail | conj |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 wife | nmod:poss |
| 18 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ask | obj |
| 19 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 20 favor | det |
| 20 | favor | favor | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 ask | obj |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 22 desire | nsubj |
| 22 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 20 favor | acl:relcl |
| 23 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 6 fail | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not fail | future | I | however property | vn succeed-74-3-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | influence | with great reluctance | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | ask speech: ask | to-infinitive | I not said here | the favor | my wife | tree rules | |||
| 4 | desire | present | you | the favor not said here | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot favor=Theme |
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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