The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 115
You have believed me, and now I want you to know that I have not imposed on you this long journey with any other design than to try you.
Who acts: I, you · What happens: believe, want, know, not impose, try · To what, where: You, long journey · 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 (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 | You | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 3 believed | nsubj:pass |
| 2 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 believed | aux |
| 3 | believed | believe | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | root | root |
| 4 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 3 believed | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 9 want | punct |
| 6 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 9 want | cc |
| 7 | now | now | ADV | PronType=Dem | 9 want | advmod |
| 8 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 9 want | nsubj |
| 9 | want | want | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 3 believed | parataxis |
| 10 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 9 want | obj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 know | mark |
| 12 | know | know | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 9 want | xcomp |
| 13 | that | that | SCONJ | _ | 17 imposed | mark |
| 14 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 17 imposed | nsubj |
| 15 | have | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 imposed | aux |
| 16 | not | not | PART | Polarity=Neg | 17 imposed | advmod |
| 17 | imposed | impose | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 12 know | ccomp |
| 18 | on | on | ADP | _ | 19 you | case |
| 19 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 imposed | obl |
| 20 | this | this | DET | Number=Sing PronType=Dem | 22 journey | det |
| 21 | long | long | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 22 journey | amod |
| 22 | journey | journey | NOUN | Number=Sing | 17 imposed | obj |
| 23 | with | with | ADP | _ | 26 design | case |
| 24 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 26 design | det |
| 25 | other | other | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 26 design | amod |
| 26 | design | design | NOUN | Number=Sing | 22 journey | nmod |
| 27 | than | than | SCONJ | _ | 29 try | mark |
| 28 | to | to | PART | _ | 29 try | mark |
| 29 | try | try | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 design | acl |
| 30 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 29 try | obj |
| 31 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 believed | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | believe | present · perfect · passive | You | me obj | vn conjecture-29.5-1 «NP V NP to be NP»: subject=Theme i=Eventuality | ||||
| 2 | want | present | I | you | now | tree rules | |||
| 3 | know not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | vn comprehend-87.2-1-1-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Experiencer clause=Stimulus | |||||
| 4 | not impose | present · perfect | I | this long journey | on you; with any other design | vn enforce-63 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent journey=Theme | |||
| 5 | try | to-infinitive | I not said here | you | vn try-61.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent you=Eventuality |
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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