The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 105
“My son,” said she, “would you leave your kingdom and go into Egypt on the faith of a dream, which may be illusive?”
Who acts: son, you, faith · What happens: say, leave, go, be · To what, where: kingdom, Egypt · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 16. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (son, you, faith), 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 2 | My | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 3 son | nmod:poss |
| 3 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 said | nsubj |
| 4 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 5 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 son | punct |
| 6 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 7 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 6 said | nsubj |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 9 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 12 leave | punct |
| 10 | would | would | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 12 leave | aux |
| 11 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 12 leave | nsubj |
| 12 | leave | leave | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 6 said | ccomp |
| 13 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 14 kingdom | nmod:poss |
| 14 | kingdom | kingdom | NOUN | Number=Sing | 12 leave | obj |
| 15 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 16 go | cc |
| 16 | go | go | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 12 leave | conj |
| 17 | into | into | ADP | _ | 18 Egypt | case |
| 18 | Egypt | Egypt | PROPN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 19 | on | on | ADP | _ | 21 faith | case |
| 20 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 21 faith | det |
| 21 | faith | faith | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 go | obl |
| 22 | of | of | ADP | _ | 24 dream | case |
| 23 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 dream | det |
| 24 | dream | dream | NOUN | Number=Sing | 21 faith | nmod |
| 25 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 29 illusive | punct |
| 26 | which | which | PRON | PronType=Rel | 29 illusive | nsubj |
| 27 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 29 illusive | aux |
| 28 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 29 illusive | cop |
| 29 | illusive | illusive | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 21 faith | conj |
| 30 | ? | ? | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
| 31 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 6 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: ask | past | My son | prosperity nsubj | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | leave in a quote | would | you | your kingdom | vn keep-15.2 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent kingdom=Theme | ||||
| 3 | go in a quote | infinitive | you not said here | Egypt | on the faith of a dream | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme into egypt=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | is in a quote | may | the faith of a dream | illusive property | tree rules |
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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