The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 16, sentence 68
Please tell him to put me back into the river, as I wish to take my former shape again.”
Who acts: you, I · What happens: tell, put back, wish, take · To what, where: scoundrel, me, river, former shape · 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 (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 | Please | please | INTJ | _ | 2 tell | discourse |
| 2 | tell | tell | VERB | Mood=Imp VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 3 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 2 tell | iobj |
| 4 | to | to | PART | _ | 5 put | mark |
| 5 | put | put | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 2 tell | xcomp |
| 6 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 5 put | obj |
| 7 | back | back | ADV | _ | 5 put | advmod |
| 8 | into | into | ADP | _ | 10 river | case |
| 9 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 10 river | det |
| 10 | river | river | NOUN | Number=Sing | 5 put | obl |
| 11 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wish | punct |
| 12 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 14 wish | mark |
| 13 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 14 wish | nsubj |
| 14 | wish | wish | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 tell | advcl |
| 15 | to | to | PART | _ | 16 take | mark |
| 16 | take | take | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wish | xcomp |
| 17 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 19 shape | nmod:poss |
| 18 | former | former | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 19 shape | amod |
| 19 | shape | shape | NOUN | Number=Sing | 16 take | obj |
| 20 | again | again | ADV | _ | 16 take | advmod |
| 21 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
| 22 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 tell | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | tell speech: assert | imperative | you not said here | scoundrel | vn transfer_mesg-37.1.1-1-1 «NP V NP S_INF»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic | ||||
| 2 | put back not said to happen | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | the river | vn invest-13.5.4-1 «NP V PP»: agent=Agent i=Goal | |||
| 3 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 4 | take not said to happen | to-infinitive | I not said here | my former shape | again | vn bring-11.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent shape=Theme |
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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