The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 115
You must say to him, ‘Lord of the Genii, I wish your majesty may protect me, as you always protected my father; and I most humbly beg you to give me the ninth statue.’”
Who acts: You, I, majesty · What happens: say, wish, protect, beg, give · To what, where: Lord, Mobarec, me, father, you, ninth statue · 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 (You, I, majesty), 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 say | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 say | aux |
| 3 | say | say | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | to | to | ADP | _ | 5 him | case |
| 5 | him | he | PRON | Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs | 3 say | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lord | punct |
| 7 | ‘ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 8 Lord | punct |
| 8 | Lord | Lord | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 say | obl |
| 9 | of | of | ADP | _ | 11 Genii | case |
| 10 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 11 Genii | det |
| 11 | Genii | Genii | PROPN | Number=Sing | 8 Lord | nmod |
| 12 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 14 wish | punct |
| 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 | 3 say | parataxis |
| 15 | your | your | PRON | Case=Gen Person=2 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 16 majesty | nmod:poss |
| 16 | majesty | majesty | NOUN | Number=Sing | 18 protect | nsubj |
| 17 | may | may | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 18 protect | aux |
| 18 | protect | protect | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 14 wish | ccomp |
| 19 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 18 protect | obj |
| 20 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 24 protected | punct |
| 21 | as | as | SCONJ | _ | 24 protected | mark |
| 22 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 24 protected | nsubj |
| 23 | always | always | ADV | PronType=Tot | 24 protected | advmod |
| 24 | protected | protect | VERB | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin | 18 protect | conj |
| 25 | my | my | PRON | Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 26 father | nmod:poss |
| 26 | father | father | NOUN | Number=Sing | 24 protected | obj |
| 27 | ; | ; | PUNCT | _ | 32 beg | punct |
| 28 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 32 beg | cc |
| 29 | I | I | PRON | Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 32 beg | nsubj |
| 30 | most | most | ADV | Degree=Sup | 31 humbly | advmod |
| 31 | humbly | humbly | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 32 beg | amod |
| 32 | beg | beg | NOUN | Number=Sing | 3 say | parataxis |
| 33 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 32 beg | obj |
| 34 | to | to | PART | _ | 35 give | mark |
| 35 | give | give | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 32 beg | acl |
| 36 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 35 give | iobj |
| 37 | the | the | DET | Definite=Def PronType=Art | 39 statue | det |
| 38 | ninth | ninth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 39 statue | amod |
| 39 | statue | statue | NOUN | Number=Sing | 35 give | obj |
| 40 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 41 | ’ | ' | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
| 42 | ” | " | PUNCT | _ | 3 say | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | say speech: assert | must | You | Lord of the Genii | Mobarec | vn say-37.7-1-1 «NP V PP.recipient S-Quote»: agent=Agent to he=Recipient | |||
| 2 | wish | present | I | vn wish-62 «NP V for NP S_INF»: agent=Pivot clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | protect | may | your majesty | me | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent i=Beneficiary | ||||
| 4 | protect | past | you | my father | always property | vn defend-72.3 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent father=Beneficiary | |||
| 5 | beg speech: request | I | you | tree rules | |||||
| 6 | give | to-infinitive | You not said here | the ninth statue | me | vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent i=Recipient statue=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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