The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 3
It is my earnest wish that you would use your influence with your wife to obtain her assistance to do me a great service.
Who acts: sorceress, you, wife · What happens: be, use, obtain, do, assist · To what, where: earnest wish, assistance, great service, 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 (sorceress, you, wife), 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 | It | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nsubj |
| 2 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 5 wish | cop |
| 3 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 5 wish | nmod:poss |
| 4 | earnest | earn | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 5 wish | amod |
| 5 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | root | root |
| 6 | that | that | PRON | PronType=Rel | 9 use | obj |
| 7 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 use | nsubj |
| 8 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 9 use | aux |
| 9 | use | use | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 5 wish | acl:relcl |
| 10 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 11 influence | nmod:poss |
| 11 | influence | influence | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 use | obj |
| 12 | with | with | ADP | _ | 14 wife | case |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 wife | nmod:poss |
| 14 | wife | wife | NOUN | Number=Sing | 9 use | obl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 obtain | mark |
| 16 | obtain | obtain | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 use | advcl |
| 17 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 18 assistance | nmod:poss |
| 18 | assistance | assistance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 obtain | obj |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 do | mark |
| 20 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 16 obtain | xcomp |
| 21 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 20 do | iobj |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 service | det |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 service | amod |
| 24 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 20 do | obj |
| 25 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 5 wish | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | is a | present | sorceress | my earnest wish | my nmod:poss | tree rules | |||
| 2 | use | would | you | my earnest wish | with your wife; your influence obj | tree rules | |||
| 3 | obtain | to-infinitive | you not said here | wife's assistance | tree rules | ||||
| 4 | do | to-infinitive | you not said here | a great service | me | tree rules | |||
| 5 | assist | wife | nom assistance «act 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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