The Jade Story Book; Stories from the Orient, Opening, part 17, sentence 127
You must return with Mobarec, and you must swear to come again to me, and to bring with you a young maiden who has reached her twentieth year, and who has never entertained a wish to be married.
Who acts: You, young maiden · What happens: return, swear, come, bring, reach, not entertain · To what, where: me, young maiden, wish
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, young maiden), 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 return | nsubj |
| 2 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 3 return | aux |
| 3 | return | return | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | root | root |
| 4 | with | with | ADP | _ | 5 Mobarec | case |
| 5 | Mobarec | Mobarec | PROPN | Number=Sing | 3 return | obl |
| 6 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 10 swear | punct |
| 7 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 10 swear | cc |
| 8 | you | you | PRON | Case=Nom Person=2 PronType=Prs | 10 swear | nsubj |
| 9 | must | must | AUX | VerbForm=Fin | 10 swear | aux |
| 10 | swear | swear | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 return | conj |
| 11 | to | to | PART | _ | 12 come | mark |
| 12 | come | come | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 10 swear | xcomp |
| 13 | again | again | ADV | _ | 12 come | advmod |
| 14 | to | to | ADP | _ | 15 me | case |
| 15 | me | I | PRON | Case=Acc Number=Sing Person=1 PronType=Prs | 12 come | obl |
| 16 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 19 bring | punct |
| 17 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 19 bring | cc |
| 18 | to | to | PART | _ | 19 bring | mark |
| 19 | bring | bring | VERB | VerbForm=Inf | 3 return | conj |
| 20 | with | with | ADP | _ | 21 you | case |
| 21 | you | you | PRON | Case=Acc Person=2 PronType=Prs | 19 bring | obl |
| 22 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 24 maiden | det |
| 23 | young | young | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 24 maiden | amod |
| 24 | maiden | maiden | NOUN | Number=Sing | 19 bring | obj |
| 25 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 27 reached | nsubj |
| 26 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 27 reached | aux |
| 27 | reached | reach | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part | 24 maiden | acl:relcl |
| 28 | her | her | PRON | Case=Gen Gender=Fem Number=Sing Person=3 Poss=Yes PronType=Prs | 30 year | nmod:poss |
| 29 | twentieth | twentieth | ADJ | Degree=Pos | 30 year | amod |
| 30 | year | year | NOUN | Number=Sing | 27 reached | obj |
| 31 | , | , | PUNCT | _ | 36 entertained | punct |
| 32 | and | and | CCONJ | _ | 36 entertained | cc |
| 33 | who | who | PRON | PronType=Rel | 36 entertained | nsubj:pass |
| 34 | has | have | AUX | Mood=Ind Number=Sing Person=3 Tense=Pres VerbForm=Fin | 36 entertained | aux |
| 35 | never | never | ADV | PronType=Neg | 36 entertained | advmod |
| 36 | entertained | entertain | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 19 bring | advcl |
| 37 | a | a | DET | Definite=Ind PronType=Art | 38 wish | det |
| 38 | wish | wish | NOUN | Number=Sing | 36 entertained | obj |
| 39 | to | to | PART | _ | 41 married | mark |
| 40 | be | be | AUX | VerbForm=Inf | 41 married | aux:pass |
| 41 | married | marry | VERB | Tense=Past VerbForm=Part Voice=Pass | 38 wish | acl |
| 42 | . | . | PUNCT | _ | 3 return | punct |
Pragmatics
| # | verb | tense, mood | who | what, whom | to whom | where | when | other | roles by |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | return | must | You | with Mobarec | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V»: agent=Theme | ||||
| 2 | swear | must | you | vn conjecture-29.5 «NP V that S»: agent=Agent clause=Theme | |||||
| 3 | come | to-infinitive | you not said here | me | again | vn escape-51.1-1 «NP V PP.initial_location»: agent=Theme to i=Initial_Location | |||
| 4 | bring | to-infinitive | You not said here | a young maiden | with you | vn bring-11.3-1 «NP V NP together»: agent=Agent maiden=Theme | |||
| 5 | reach | present · perfect | a young maiden | year | vn body_motion-49.2-1-1 «NP V»: agent=Agent | ||||
| 6 | not entertain | present · perfect · passive | a wish | who nsubj:pass | vn amuse-31.1 «NP V NP ADJ»: subject=Experiencer wish=Result | ||||
| 7 | marry | to-infinitive · passive | a wish not said here | vn amalgamate-22.2-3-1-1 «NP V» |
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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