The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 83

Without doubt he seeks my ruin; but if there are any means, I beg you will tell me how I may come off with honor this time also.”

Who acts: prince, any, I, you, my · What happens: seek, be, mean, beg, tell, come off · To what, where: ruin, me · Speech: someone speaks here

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 (prince, any, I, 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	Without	without	ADP	_	2 doubt	case
2	doubt	doubt	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeks	obl
3	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	4 seeks	nsubj
4	seeks	seek	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
5	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	6 ruin	nmod:poss
6	ruin	ruin	NOUN	Number=Sing	4 seeks	obj
7	;	;	PUNCT	_	13 means	punct
8	but	but	CCONJ	_	13 means	cc
9	if	if	SCONJ	_	11 are	mark
10	there	there	PRON	PronType=Dem	11 are	expl
11	are	be	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	13 means	advcl
12	any	any	DET	PronType=Ind	13 means	nsubj
13	means	mean	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seeks	conj
14	,	,	PUNCT	_	16 beg	punct
15	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	16 beg	nsubj
16	beg	beg	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	4 seeks	conj
17	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	19 tell	nsubj
18	will	will	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	19 tell	aux
19	tell	tell	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	16 beg	conj
20	me	I	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	19 tell	iobj
21	how	how	ADV	PronType=Int	24 come	advmod
22	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	24 come	nsubj
23	may	may	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	24 come	aux
24	come	come	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	19 tell	ccomp
25	off	off	ADP	_	24 come	compound:prt
26	with	with	ADP	_	27 honor	case
27	honor	honor	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl
28	this	this	DET	Number=Sing PronType=Dem	29 time	det
29	time	time	NOUN	Number=Sing	24 come	obl:unmarked
30	also	also	ADV	_	24 come	advmod
31	.	.	PUNCT	_	4 seeks	punct
32	”	"	PUNCT	_	4 seeks	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	seek	present	prince	my ruin				without doubt	vn hunt-35.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ruin=Theme
2	be a condition, not said to happen	present	any not said here			there			vn exist-47.1 «NP V»: agent=Theme
3	mean	present	any						vn intend-61.2-1 «NP V S»: agent=Agent
4	beg speech: request	present	I						vn beg-58.2-1-1 «NP V PP.Topic»: agent=Agent
5	tell speech: assert	future	you		me				vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP what S»: agent=Agent i=Recipient clause=Topic
6	come off	may	I				time	with honor	vn occur-48.3-2 «NP V ADV»: agent=Theme
7	ruin		my						nom ruin «state 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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 83