The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 122

I promised him to receive you under my protection, and to give you the ninth statue, which in beauty surpasses those you have already.

Who acts: I, you, my · What happens: promise, receive, give, surpass, have, protect · To what, where: father, you, protection, ninth statue, beauty

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 (I, you, my), 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	I	I	PRON	Case=Nom Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs	2 promised	nsubj
2	promised	promise	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=1 Tense=Past VerbForm=Fin	root	root
3	him	he	PRON	Case=Acc Gender=Masc Number=Sing Person=3 PronType=Prs	2 promised	iobj
4	to	to	PART	_	5 receive	mark
5	receive	receive	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	xcomp
6	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	5 receive	obj
7	under	under	ADP	_	9 protection	case
8	my	my	PRON	Case=Gen Number=Sing Person=1 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs	9 protection	nmod:poss
9	protection	protection	NOUN	Number=Sing	5 receive	obl
10	,	,	PUNCT	_	13 give	punct
11	and	and	CCONJ	_	13 give	cc
12	to	to	PART	_	13 give	mark
13	give	give	VERB	VerbForm=Inf	2 promised	parataxis
14	you	you	PRON	Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs	13 give	iobj
15	the	the	DET	Definite=Def PronType=Art	17 statue	det
16	ninth	ninth	ADJ	Degree=Pos	17 statue	amod
17	statue	statue	NOUN	Number=Sing	13 give	obj
18	,	,	PUNCT	_	22 surpasses	punct
19	which	which	PRON	PronType=Rel	22 surpasses	obj
20	in	in	ADP	_	21 beauty	case
21	beauty	beauty	NOUN	Number=Sing	22 surpasses	obl
22	surpasses	surpass	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	17 statue	acl:relcl
23	those	that	PRON	Number=Plur PronType=Dem	22 surpasses	obj
24	you	you	PRON	Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs	25 have	nsubj
25	have	have	VERB	Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=2 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin	23 those	acl:relcl
26	already	already	ADV	_	25 have	advmod
27	.	.	PUNCT	_	2 promised	punct

Pragmatics

#	verb	tense, mood	who	what, whom	to whom	where	roles by
1	promise speech: promise	past	I		father		vn promise-37.13 «NP V NP that S»: agent=Agent he=Recipient clause=Topic
2	receive not said to happen	to-infinitive	I not said here	you		my protection	vn admit-64.3-1 «NP V NP PP.location»: agent=Agent you=Theme under protection=Location
3	give	to-infinitive		the ninth statue	you		vn give-13.1-1 «NP V NP-Dative NP»: agent=Agent you=Recipient statue=Theme
4	surpass	present		the ninth statue		beauty	tree rules
5	have	present	you				vn birth-28.2-1 «NP V NP»: agent=Agent
6	protect		my				nom protection «act transitive»: poss=agent

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 122

The tree

Pragmatics

The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 122