The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 23
My father doubts my fidelity to him, unless I can provide a tent large enough to shelter him, his court, and army when he goes to war, and small enough for a man to carry in his hand.”
Who acts: father, I, Ahmed · What happens: doubt, provide, shelter, go, carry · To what, where: fidelity, Ahmed, tent, war, hand
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 (father, I, Ahmed), 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 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 2 father | nmod:poss |
| 2 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doubts | nsubj |
| 3 | doubts | doubt | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 4 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 fidelity | nmod:poss |
| 5 | fidelity | fidelity | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 doubts | obj |
| 6 | to | to | ADP | _ | 7 him | case |
| 7 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 doubts | obl |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 provide | punct |
| 9 | unless | unless | SCONJ | _ | 12 provide | mark |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 provide | nsubj |
| 11 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 provide | aux |
| 12 | provide | provide | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 doubts | conj |
| 13 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 tent | det |
| 14 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 provide | obj |
| 15 | large | large | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 tent | amod |
| 16 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 15 large | advmod |
| 17 | to | to | PART | _ | 18 shelter | mark |
| 18 | shelter | shelter | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 15 large | advcl |
| 19 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 18 shelter | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 22 court | punct |
| 21 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 22 court | nmod:poss |
| 22 | court | court | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tent | conj |
| 23 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 25 army | punct |
| 24 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 25 army | cc |
| 25 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 tent | conj |
| 26 | when | when | SCONJ | _ | 28 goes | mark |
| 27 | he | he | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 28 goes | nsubj |
| 28 | goes | go | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 12 provide | advcl |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 war | case |
| 30 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 28 goes | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 33 small | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 33 small | cc |
| 33 | small | small | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 3 doubts | parataxis |
| 34 | enough | enough | ADV | _ | 33 small | advmod |
| 35 | for | for | ADP | _ | 37 man | case |
| 36 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 man | det |
| 37 | man | man | NOUN | Number=Sing | 33 small | obl |
| 38 | to | to | PART | _ | 39 carry | mark |
| 39 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 37 man | acl |
| 40 | in | in | ADP | _ | 42 hand | case |
| 41 | his | his | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 42 hand | nmod:poss |
| 42 | hand | hand | NOUN | Number=Sing | 39 carry | obl |
| 43 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 33 small | punct |
| 44 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 doubts | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | doubt | present | My father | my fidelity | Ahmed | vn judgment-33.1-1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent fidelity=Theme | |||
| 2 | provide a condition, not said to happen | can | I | a tent and Ahmed's court and army | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition tent=Theme | ||||
| 3 | shelter | to-infinitive | I not said here | Ahmed | vn concealment-16 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Patient | ||||
| 4 | go | present | Ahmed | war | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to war=Initial_Location | ||||
| 5 | carry | to-infinitive | My father not said here | Ahmed's hand | vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent in hand=Location |
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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