The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 4
You know to what a great expense I am put, every time I engage in war, to provide mules, camels, and other beasts of burden to carry the tents of myself and of my army.
Who acts: You, I · What happens: know, put, engage, provide, carry · To what, where: I, war, mules, tents
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 (You, I), 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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 2 know | nsubj |
| 2 | know | know | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | to | to | ADP | _ | 4 what | case |
| 4 | what | what | PRON | PronType=Rel | 2 know | conj |
| 5 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 7 expense | det |
| 6 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 7 expense | amod |
| 7 | expense | expense | NOUN | Number=Sing | 4 what | nsubj |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 10 put | nsubj |
| 9 | am | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 10 put | aux:pass |
| 10 | put | put | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 7 expense | acl:relcl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 15 engage | punct |
| 12 | every | every | DET | PronType=Tot | 13 time | det |
| 13 | time | time | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 engage | obl:unmarked |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 15 engage | nsubj |
| 15 | engage | engage | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 4 what | parataxis |
| 16 | in | in | ADP | _ | 17 war | case |
| 17 | war | war | NOUN | Number=Sing | 15 engage | obl |
| 18 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 20 provide | punct |
| 19 | to | to | PART | _ | 20 provide | mark |
| 20 | provide | provide | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 15 engage | conj |
| 21 | mules | mule | NOUN | Number=Plur | 20 provide | obj |
| 22 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 23 camels | punct |
| 23 | camels | camel | NOUN | Number=Plur | 21 mules | conj |
| 24 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 27 beasts | punct |
| 25 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 27 beasts | cc |
| 26 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 27 beasts | amod |
| 27 | beasts | beast | NOUN | Number=Plur | 2 know | conj |
| 28 | of | of | ADP | _ | 29 burden | case |
| 29 | burden | burden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 beasts | nmod |
| 30 | to | to | PART | _ | 31 carry | mark |
| 31 | carry | carry | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 know | advcl |
| 32 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 33 tents | det |
| 33 | tents | tent | NOUN | Number=Plur | 31 carry | obj |
| 34 | of | of | ADP | _ | 35 myself | case |
| 35 | myself | myself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 33 tents | nmod |
| 36 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 39 army | cc |
| 37 | of | of | ADP | _ | 39 army | case |
| 38 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 39 army | nmod:poss |
| 39 | army | army | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 myself | conj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 know | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | know | present | You | what a great expense conj; other beasts of burden conj | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | put | present · passive | I | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: subject=Goal | |||||
| 3 | engage | present | I | time | in war goal | vn involve-107.1 «NP V NP PP.goal»: agent=Agent in war=Goal | |||
| 4 | provide | to-infinitive | I not said here | mules and camels | vn ensure-99 «NP V NP»: agent=Precondition mule=Theme | ||||
| 5 | carry | to-infinitive | You not said here | the tents of myself | vn carry-11.4 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent tent=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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