The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 114

As soon as he appears before us, you must rise and salute him, without going off your mat; for you would certainly perish should you stir from it.

Who acts: Mobarec, you · What happens: appear, rise, salute, go off, perish, stir · To what, where: Mobarec, mat, shape

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 (Mobarec, 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	As	as	ADV	_	2 soon	advmod
2	soon	soon	ADV	Degree=Pos	5 appears	advmod
3	as	as	SCONJ	_	5 appears	mark
4	he	he	PRON	Case=Nom Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	5 appears	nsubj
5	appears	appear	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	root	root
6	before	before	ADP	_	7 us	case
7	us	we	PRON	Case=Acc Number=Plur Person=1 PronType=Prs	5 appears	obl
8	,	,	PUNCT	_	11 rise	punct
9	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	11 rise	nsubj
10	must	must	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	11 rise	aux
11	rise	rise	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	5 appears	parataxis
12	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 salute	cc
13	salute	salute	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 rise	conj
14	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	13 salute	obj
15	,	,	PUNCT	_	17 going	punct
16	without	without	SCONJ	_	17 going	mark
17	going	go	VERB	Tense=Pres VerbForm=Part	13 salute	advcl
18	off	off	ADP	_	17 going	compound:prt
19	your	your	PRON	Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	20 mat	nmod:poss
20	mat	mat	NOUN	Number=Sing	17 going	obj
21	;	;	PUNCT	_	26 perish	punct
22	for	for	SCONJ	_	26 perish	mark
23	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	26 perish	nsubj
24	would	would	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	26 perish	aux
25	certainly	certainly	ADV	_	26 perish	advmod
26	perish	perish	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	11 rise	conj
27	should	should	AUX	VerbForm=Fin	29 stir	aux
28	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	29 stir	nsubj
29	stir	stir	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	26 perish	conj
30	from	from	ADP	_	31 it	case
31	it	it	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Neut Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	29 stir	obl
32	.	.	PUNCT	_	5 appears	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	where	when	other	roles by
1	appear	present	Mobarec			before us	soon property	vn appear-48.1.1 «NP V PP.location»: agent=Theme before we=Location
2	rise	must	you					vn assuming_position-50 «NP V»: agent=Agent
3	salute	infinitive	you not said here	Mobarec				vn curtsey-40.3.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent he=Topic
4	go off	gerund	you not said here	your mat				tree rules
5	perish	would	you				certainly property	vn break_down-45.8 «NP V»: agent=Patient
6	stir	should	you		shape			vn amuse-31.1 «NP V ADV-Middle»: agent=Experiencer

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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The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 114