The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 12
If I should not come again to pay you my respects, it will be the sign that I have not been able to succeed in my petition; but beforehand, I desire you to forgive me, and consider that you yourself have reduced me to this extremity.”
Who acts: I, influence, my · What happens: not come, pay, be, not be, succeed, desire · To what, where: you, sign, petition, me
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, my), 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 | If | if | SCONJ | _ | 5 come | mark |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 come | nsubj |
| 3 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 5 come | aux |
| 4 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 5 come | advmod |
| 5 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 desire | advcl |
| 6 | again | again | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 pay | mark |
| 8 | pay | pay | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 come | advcl |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 pay | obj |
| 10 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 respects | nmod:poss |
| 11 | respects | respects | NOUN | Number=Plur | 8 pay | obj |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 sign | punct |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 17 sign | nsubj |
| 14 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 17 sign | aux |
| 15 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 17 sign | cop |
| 16 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 17 sign | det |
| 17 | sign | sign | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 come | parataxis |
| 18 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 23 able | mark |
| 19 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 23 able | nsubj |
| 20 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 23 able | aux |
| 21 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 23 able | advmod |
| 22 | been | be | AUX | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 able | cop |
| 23 | able | able | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 17 sign | acl |
| 24 | to | to | PART | _ | 25 succeed | mark |
| 25 | succeed | succeed | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 23 able | xcomp |
| 26 | in | in | ADP | _ | 28 petition | case |
| 27 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 petition | nmod:poss |
| 28 | petition | petition | NOUN | Number=Sing | 25 succeed | obl |
| 29 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 31 beforehand | punct |
| 30 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 31 beforehand | cc |
| 31 | beforehand | beforehand | ADV | _ | 5 come | advmod |
| 32 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 5 come | punct |
| 33 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 desire | nsubj |
| 34 | desire | desire | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 35 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 34 desire | obj |
| 36 | to | to | PART | _ | 37 forgive | mark |
| 37 | forgive | forgive | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 34 desire | advcl |
| 38 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 37 forgive | obj |
| 39 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 41 consider | punct |
| 40 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 41 consider | cc |
| 41 | consider | consider | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 forgive | conj |
| 42 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 46 reduced | mark |
| 43 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 46 reduced | nsubj:pass |
| 44 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 43 you | nmod |
| 45 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 46 reduced | aux |
| 46 | reduced | reduce | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 41 consider | advcl |
| 47 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 46 reduced | obj |
| 48 | to | to | ADP | _ | 50 extremity | case |
| 49 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 50 extremity | det |
| 50 | extremity | extremity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 46 reduced | obl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 34 desire | punct |
| 52 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 34 desire | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | not come a condition, not said to happen | should | I | again | beforehand property | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | |||
| 2 | pay | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | my respects obj | vn pay-68-1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient respects=Asset | |||
| 3 | is a | future | influence | the sign | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | not is | present · perfect | I | the sign not said here | able property | tree rules | |||
| 5 | succeed | to-infinitive | I not said here | my petition | vn succeed-74-1 «NP V PP.eventuality S_ING»: agent=Agent in petition=Eventuality | ||||
| 6 | desire | present | I | you | vn want-32.1-1-1 «NP V NP ADV»: agent=Pivot you=Theme | ||||
| 7 | forgive | to-infinitive | I not said here | me | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Theme | ||||
| 8 | consider | infinitive | I not said here | vn consider-29.9-1-1 «NP V whether/if S»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 9 | reduce | present · perfect · passive | you | to this extremity result; me obj | vn caused_calibratable_cos-45.6.2 «NP V NP.patient NP.extent PP.initial_state PP.result»: subject=Patient i=Extent to extremity=Result | ||||
| 10 | petition | my | nom petition «communication transitive»: poss=agent |
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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