The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 13
“Son,” replied the Sultan of the Indies, “your wife would show that her love to you was very slight if, with the power she possesses as a fairy, she should refuse so trifling a request as that I have begged you to make.
Who acts: Son, wife, love · What happens: reply, show, be, possess, refuse, not trifle · To what, where: Sultan, request, you · Speech: someone speaks here
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 (Son, wife, love), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 2 | Son | Son | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | nsubj |
| 3 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 4 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Son | punct |
| 5 | replied | reply | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 6 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 7 Sultan | det |
| 7 | Sultan | Sultan | PROPN | Number=Sing | 5 replied | obj |
| 8 | of | of | ADP | _ | 10 Indies | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 Indies | det |
| 10 | Indies | Indy | PROPN | Number=Plur | 7 Sultan | nmod |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 16 show | punct |
| 12 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 16 show | punct |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 show | nsubj |
| 15 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 16 show | aux |
| 16 | show | show | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 replied | parataxis |
| 17 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 24 slight | mark |
| 18 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 love | nmod:poss |
| 19 | love | love | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 slight | nsubj |
| 20 | to | to | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 love | nmod |
| 22 | was | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 24 slight | cop |
| 23 | very | very | ADV | _ | 24 slight | advmod |
| 24 | slight | slight | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 16 show | ccomp |
| 25 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 31 possesses | mark |
| 26 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 power | punct |
| 27 | with | with | ADP | _ | 29 power | case |
| 28 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 29 power | det |
| 29 | power | power | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 possesses | obl |
| 30 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 31 possesses | nsubj |
| 31 | possesses | possess | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 24 slight | advcl |
| 32 | as | as | ADP | _ | 34 fairy | case |
| 33 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 34 fairy | det |
| 34 | fairy | fairy | NOUN | Number=Sing | 31 possesses | obl |
| 35 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 38 refuse | punct |
| 36 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 38 refuse | nsubj |
| 37 | should | should | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 38 refuse | aux |
| 38 | refuse | refuse | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 show | conj |
| 39 | so | so | ADV | _ | 40 trifling | advmod |
| 40 | trifling | trifle | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 38 refuse | xcomp |
| 41 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 42 request | det |
| 42 | request | request | NOUN | Number=Sing | 40 trifling | obj |
| 43 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 47 begged | mark |
| 44 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 47 begged | mark |
| 45 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 47 begged | nsubj |
| 46 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 47 begged | aux |
| 47 | begged | beg | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 40 trifling | advcl |
| 48 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 47 begged | obj |
| 49 | to | to | PART | _ | 50 make | mark |
| 50 | make | make | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 47 begged | advcl |
| 51 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 replied | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | reply speech: assert | past | Son | the Sultan of the Indies | tree rules | ||||
| 2 | show in a quote | would | your wife | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 3 | is in a quote | past | wife's love to you | slight property | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | possess a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present | wife | with the power; as a fairy | vn own-100.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Pivot | ||||
| 5 | refuse in a quote | should | wife | vn reject-77.2 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 6 | not trifle in a quote | gerund | wife not said here | a request | tree rules | ||||
| 7 | beg speech: request in a quote | present · perfect | Son | you | vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V NP PP.Topic»: agent=Agent you=Recipient | ||||
| 8 | make in a quote | to-infinitive | Son not said here | vn build-26.1-1 «NP.asset V NP»: agent=Asset | |||||
| 9 | love in a quote | wife | to you | nom love «feeling transitive»: poss=agent to=obl |
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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