The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 130
“Forbear afflicting yourself, my son,” said she; “if God has appointed you riches, you will have them without any trouble.
Who acts: queen, God, you · What happens: afflict, say, appoint, have · To what, where: yourself, you, riches · 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 (queen, God, 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 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 afflicting | punct |
| 2 | Forbear | forbear | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 afflicting | compound |
| 3 | afflicting | afflict | VERB | VerbForm=Ger | 10 said | ccomp |
| 4 | yourself | yourself | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=2 PronType=Prs Reflex=Yes | 3 afflicting | obj |
| 5 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 7 son | punct |
| 6 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 7 son | nmod:poss |
| 7 | son | son | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 afflicting | vocative |
| 8 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 3 afflicting | punct |
| 9 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 afflicting | punct |
| 10 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 11 | she | she | PRON | Case=Nom Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 10 said | nsubj |
| 12 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 13 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 23 have | punct |
| 14 | if | if | SCONJ | _ | 17 appointed | mark |
| 15 | God | God | PROPN | Number=Sing | 17 appointed | nsubj |
| 16 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 17 appointed | aux |
| 17 | appointed | appoint | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 23 have | advcl |
| 18 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 17 appointed | obj |
| 19 | riches | rich | NOUN | Number=Plur | 17 appointed | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 17 appointed | punct |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 23 have | nsubj |
| 22 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 23 have | aux |
| 23 | have | have | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 said | conj |
| 24 | them | they | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=3 PronType=Prs | 23 have | obj |
| 25 | without | without | ADP | _ | 27 trouble | case |
| 26 | any | any | DET | PronType=Ind | 27 trouble | det |
| 27 | trouble | trouble | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 have | obl |
| 28 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 10 said | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | afflict in a quote | gerund | yourself | my son vocative; Forbear compound | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP»: agent=Stimulus yourself=Experiencer | ||||
| 2 | say speech: assert | past | queen | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 3 | appoint a condition, not said to happen, in a quote | present · perfect | God | you | riches obj | vn appoint-29.1 «NP V NP NP»: agent=Agent you=Theme rich=Attribute | |||
| 4 | have in a quote | future | you | riches = rich | without any trouble | vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent they=Patient |
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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