The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 5

Now I am persuaded you could easily procure from the fairy, your wife, a tent that might be carried in a man’s hand, and which would protect my whole army.

Who acts: you · What happens: persuade, procure, carry, protect · To what, where: I, tent, hand, whole army

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	Now	now	ADV	PronType=Dem	4 persuaded	advmod
2	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	4 persuaded	nsubj
3	am	be	AUX	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 persuaded	aux:pass
4	persuaded	persuade	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	root	root
5	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	8 procure	nsubj
6	could	could	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	8 procure	aux
7	easily	easily	ADV	_	8 procure	advmod
8	procure	procure	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	4 persuaded	ccomp
9	from	from	ADP	_	11 fairy	case
10	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	11 fairy	det
11	fairy	fairy	NOUN	Number=Sing	8 procure	obl
12	,	,	PUNCT	_	14 wife	punct
13	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	14 wife	nmod:poss
14	wife	wife	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fairy	conj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 tent	punct
16	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	17 tent	det
17	tent	tent	NOUN	Number=Sing	11 fairy	conj
18	that	that	PRON	PronType=Rel	21 carried	nsubj:pass
19	might	might	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	21 carried	aux
20	be	be	AUX	VerbForm=Inf	21 carried	aux:pass
21	carried	carry	VERB	Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass	17 tent	acl:relcl
22	in	in	ADP	_	26 hand	case
23	a	a	DET	Definite=Ind PronType=Art	24 man	det
24	man	man	NOUN	Number=Sing	26 hand	nmod:poss
25	’s	's	PART	_	24 man	case
26	hand	hand	NOUN	Number=Sing	21 carried	obl
27	,	,	PUNCT	_	31 protect	punct
28	and	and	CCONJ	_	31 protect	cc
29	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	31 protect	nsubj
30	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	31 protect	aux
31	protect	protect	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	8 procure	advcl
32	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	34 army	nmod:poss
33	whole	whole	ADJ	Degree=Pos	34 army	amod
34	army	army	NOUN	Number=Sing	31 protect	obj
35	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 persuaded	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	persuade	present · passive		I		now		vn compel-59.1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: subject=Patient clause=Result
2	procure	could	you				from the fairy and your wife and a tent; easily property	vn get-13.5.1 «NP V NP PP.source»: agent=Agent from fairy=Source
3	carry	might · passive		a tent	a man's hand			vn fit-54.3 «NP V NP PP.location»: subject=Value in hand=Location
4	protect	would		my whole army			which nsubj	vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent army=Beneficiary

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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🌲 The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 5

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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 5