The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 51
All I can do is, to assure you I will request it of her; but it will be with as great reluctance as I asked for the tent.”
Who acts: I, All, water · What happens: do, be, request, ask · To what, where: you, water
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 (I, All, water), 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 | All | all | DET | PronType=Tot | 8 assure | nsubj:outer |
| 2 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 4 do | nsubj |
| 3 | can | can | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 4 do | aux |
| 4 | do | do | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 All | acl:relcl |
| 5 | is | be | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 8 assure | cop |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 assure | punct |
| 7 | to | to | PART | _ | 8 assure | mark |
| 8 | assure | assure | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 9 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 8 assure | iobj |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 request | nsubj |
| 11 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 request | aux |
| 12 | request | request | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 8 assure | conj |
| 13 | it | it | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 request | obj |
| 14 | of | of | ADP | _ | 15 her | case |
| 15 | her | she | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 12 request | obl |
| 16 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 24 reluctance | punct |
| 17 | but | but | CCONJ | _ | 24 reluctance | cc |
| 18 | it | it | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 24 reluctance | nsubj |
| 19 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 24 reluctance | aux |
| 20 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 24 reluctance | cop |
| 21 | with | with | ADP | _ | 24 reluctance | case |
| 22 | as | as | ADP | _ | 24 reluctance | case |
| 23 | great | great | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 reluctance | amod |
| 24 | reluctance | reluctance | NOUN | Number=Sing | 8 assure | obl |
| 25 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 27 asked | mark |
| 26 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 27 asked | nsubj |
| 27 | asked | ask | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 8 assure | advcl |
| 28 | for | for | ADP | _ | 30 tent | case |
| 29 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 30 tent | det |
| 30 | tent | tent | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 asked | obl |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 8 assure | punct |
| 32 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 8 assure | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | do | can | I | vn act-114-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | |||||
| 2 | is | present | All | you | assure property | tree rules | |||
| 3 | request | future | I | water | of wife | vn beg-58.2 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent it=Recipient | |||
| 4 | is | future | water | with great reluctance | tree rules | ||||
| 5 | ask speech: ask | past | I | for the tent | vn inquire-37.1.2 «NP V»: agent=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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