The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 47
Do me this important service, and complete the duty of a good son towards a tender father.”
Who acts: you · What happens: do, complete · To what, where: important service, me, duty
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), 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 | Do | do | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 1 Do | iobj |
| 3 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 5 service | det |
| 4 | important | important | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 5 service | amod |
| 5 | service | service | NOUN | Number=Sing | 1 Do | obj |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 complete | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 8 complete | cc |
| 8 | complete | complete | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | 1 Do | conj |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 duty | det |
| 10 | duty | duty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 complete | obj |
| 11 | of | of | ADP | _ | 14 son | case |
| 12 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 14 son | det |
| 13 | good | good | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 14 son | amod |
| 14 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 10 duty | nmod |
| 15 | towards | towards | ADP | _ | 18 father | case |
| 16 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 18 father | det |
| 17 | tender | tender | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 father | compound |
| 18 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 complete | obl |
| 19 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
| 20 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Do | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | imperative | you not said here | this important service | me | tree rules | |||
| 2 | complete | infinitive | you not said here | the duty of a good son | towards a tender father | vn complete-55.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent duty=Eventuality |
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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