The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 110
“Let us at present proceed no farther,” said Mobarec, “or these genii will destroy us; and in order to prevent their coming to us, we must perform a magic ceremony.”
Who acts: us, Mobarec, genii, portals, we · What happens: let, proceed, say, destroy, prevent, come · To what, where: us, present, magic ceremony · Speech: someone speaks here
This is a sentence of «The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient» by Penrhyn Wingfield Coussens, Opening, part 17. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: who acts (us, Mobarec, genii, portals), 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 | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 2 | Let | let | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 3 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 2 Let | obj |
| 4 | at | at | ADP | _ | 5 present | case |
| 5 | present | present | NOUN | Number=Sing | 6 proceed | obl |
| 6 | proceed | proceed | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Plur Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 2 Let | xcomp |
| 7 | no | no | DET | PronType=Neg | 8 farther | det |
| 8 | farther | far | ADJ | Degree=Cmp | 6 proceed | xcomp |
| 9 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 farther | punct |
| 10 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 2 Let | punct |
| 11 | said | say | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | root | root |
| 12 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 11 said | nsubj |
| 13 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 destroy | punct |
| 14 | “ | " | PUNCT | _ | 19 destroy | punct |
| 15 | or | or | CCONJ | _ | 17 genii | cc |
| 16 | these | this | DET | Number=Plur PronType=Dem | 17 genii | det |
| 17 | genii | genii | NOUN | Number=Plur | 19 destroy | nsubj |
| 18 | will | will | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 19 destroy | aux |
| 19 | destroy | destroy | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | conj |
| 20 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 19 destroy | obj |
| 21 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 26 prevent | punct |
| 22 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 26 prevent | cc |
| 23 | in | in | SCONJ | ExtPos=SCONJ | 26 prevent | mark |
| 24 | order | order | NOUN | Number=Sing | 23 in | fixed |
| 25 | to | to | PART | _ | 26 prevent | mark |
| 26 | prevent | prevent | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 11 said | ccomp |
| 27 | their | their | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Plur Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 28 coming | nsubj |
| 28 | coming | come | VERB | Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part | 26 prevent | xcomp |
| 29 | to | to | ADP | _ | 30 us | case |
| 30 | us | we | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 28 coming | obl |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 34 perform | punct |
| 32 | we | we | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs | 34 perform | nsubj |
| 33 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 34 perform | aux |
| 34 | perform | perform | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 26 prevent | conj |
| 35 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 37 ceremony | det |
| 36 | magic | magic | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 37 ceremony | amod |
| 37 | ceremony | ceremony | NOUN | Number=Sing | 34 perform | obj |
| 38 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 26 prevent | punct |
| 39 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 26 prevent | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | let in a quote | infinitive | us | tree rules | |||||
| 2 | proceed in a quote | present | us not said here | present | far property | vn begin-55.1 «NP V S_INF»: agent=Agent | |||
| 3 | say speech: assert | past | Mobarec | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Topic | |||||
| 4 | destroy in a quote | future | this genii | us | vn destroy-44 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent we=Patient | ||||
| 5 | prevent in a quote | to-infinitive | vn forbid-64.4-1 «NP V S_ING»: agent=Causer clause=Eventuality | ||||||
| 6 | come in a quote | gerund | portals = portal | us | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to we=Initial_Location | ||||
| 7 | perform in a quote | must | we | a magic ceremony | vn performance-26.7 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent ceremony=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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