The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 14, sentence 89
Let him be ever so ugly or deformed, I shall love and honor him as your nearest relation.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: let, be, deform, love, honor · To what, where: Ahmed
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 | Let | let | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 2 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 1 Let | obj |
| 3 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 6 ugly | cop |
| 4 | ever | ever | ADV | PronType=Ind | 6 ugly | advmod |
| 5 | so | so | ADV | _ | 6 ugly | advmod |
| 6 | ugly | ugly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 7 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 8 deformed | cc |
| 8 | deformed | deform | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 6 ugly | conj |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 love | punct |
| 10 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 love | nsubj |
| 11 | shall | shall | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 love | aux |
| 12 | love | love | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 1 Let | parataxis |
| 13 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 14 honor | cc |
| 14 | honor | honor | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 love | conj |
| 15 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 14 honor | obj |
| 16 | as | as | ADP | _ | 19 relation | case |
| 17 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 relation | nmod:poss |
| 18 | nearest | near | ADJ | Degree=Sup | 19 relation | amod |
| 19 | relation | relation | NOUN | Number=Sing | 14 honor | obl |
| 20 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
| 21 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 1 Let | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let | imperative | you not said here | Ahmed | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Theme | ||||
| 2 | is | infinitive | ever | ugly property | tree rules | ||||
| 3 | deform | participle | vn turn-26.6.1 «NP V»: agent=Patient | ||||||
| 4 | love | shall | I | vn admire-31.2-1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Experiencer | |||||
| 5 | honor | infinitive | I not said here | Ahmed | as your nearest relation | vn judgment-33.1-1 «NP V NP PP.attribute»: agent=Agent he=Theme as relation=Attribute |
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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